Search companies vye for the desktop
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All the major Web portals seem to be rushing delivery on one product this holiday: desktop search software. Microsoft plans to introduce a test version of its desktop search application in the coming days, meeting its stated deadline by a nose.
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INTERNET giant Google has taken its searching tools one step further with a service for individual desktops. Its new desktop search application means users can search their email, files, web history, and chats
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Google was first to market a desktop search utility. Well, actually, others were first, but Google&#39;s the one everyone noticed.
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Microsoft has launched its long anticipated desktop search application, and it's packed with promising features and tools that make it a strong contender coming out the gate.
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The long-rumoured Google desktop search is now available for download from desktop.google.com. The new beta application allows users to index and search their emails, documents, Web history and instant messenger chats.
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While Microsoft and Google dominate many computer activities like search and Internet browsing, programs and utilities from smaller companies offer worthy alternatives.
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Last week when Google came up with its Desktop Search, it promised to make finding files on our desktop a lot less painful. Knowing Google and its other services, I had little doubt that the new tool from their stable would be incredible.
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Microsoft today joined the desktop search fray by releasing the beta-test version of a suite of tools designed to let users find information stored in their PCs.
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Microsoft and Ask Jeeves both announced tools Monday that allow users to search their desktop computers, adding their names to a crowded field of Internet search companies that are focused on helping people more effectively scan their own hard drives for files and e-mail messages.
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Catching up to Google, Yahoo unleashes a desktop search tool  Also: IBM makes move in data storage market & hellip;.  HP makes cheap computer with rural Chinese appeal & hellip;. and more.
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While Microsoft and Google dominate Internet browsing and search, smaller companies offer worthy alternatives.
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As the major players in Web search duke it out, a growing number of startups are embracing a different way of retrieving and sorting search results.
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Microsoft yesterday res-ponded to rivals in the burgeoning search engine business by unveiling a test version of a free desktop search tool that will help computer users find information on the hard drives of their PCs.
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Google Desktop Search versus Microsoft Windows Search  Google Desktop Search Software can't find your lost keys or tell you where you left the Tivo remote control, or that your glasses are on top of your head, where you left them. But the beta software from Google Labs is nothing short of ...
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Google is developing a desktop search tool designed for corporate use, several months after launching a similar tool for personal use that is free and still in test form. With this move, Google hopes to round out its desktop search push by addressing both the mass market and the workplace market.
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KDE developers are crafting a search engine for the desktop, but don't look for it just yet.
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Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and Microsoft all plan to follow Google to the desktop.