Google Takes On Your Desktop
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Google has just introduced its latest invention: software that applies its search technology to what is on your own hard drive.
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In the last couple of months, we have seen Google invading the Microsoft territory with GMail and Google Desktop Search. Now Microsoft is responding.
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Internet search leader Google Inc. yesterday introduced Google Desktop Search, a free program that creates an index of the files on a user&#39;s own computer.
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Desktop search can help you sort through your computer's contents
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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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Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and Microsoft all plan to follow Google to the desktop.
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Anyone who&#39;s spent hours struggling to find a missing document on a computer hard drive will love Google&#39;s new desktop search program.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Alex Chadwick talks with Paul Boutin of Slate about Google.com&#39;s newest service: software that allows you to search your desktop in the familiar way you search the Web.
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Google has released a tool that lets people search documents, e-mails or spreadsheets stored on a PC.
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Microsoft and Google look set to clash over their rival ways of searching desktop computers.
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Google&#39;s (Quote, Chart) Desktop Search application, released today, sorts through desktop files of all sorts, as well as AOL Instant Messenger chats and Web sites the user has visited.
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Not too long ago, Google Inc seemed little more than a nuisance to Microsoft Corp&#39;s software domination. No more. As Google rapidly rolls out new products, the company best known for its wildly popular search
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Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday rolled out a preliminary version of its new desktop search tool, making the first move against
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Today Brad  gave me a quick demo of Google  Desktop .  Its great that Google keeps innovating (and more power to them) but to be honest I was a bit underwhelmed.  caption: Google Desktop Homepage.  It should be possible to quickly put together a Lucene  Desktop which performed the same tasks but was Open Source and based on web standards.  There are a few steps here of course:   - Integrating lucene to index the filesystem only when files are changed.  This    can be accomplished by looking at directory timestamps and only searching    directories that have changed since the last index run.    - Only indexing during idle CPU time.  On windows you could build this around a    screensaver.   ...
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Google Inc. made a much anticipated move toward what many consider the newest frontier in the digital information search sector by announcing Thursday it is offering a test version of an application designed to let users search for information stored on their desktop computers.
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Internet search leader Google Inc. yesterday introduced Google Desktop Search, a free program that creates an index of the files on a user's own computer. The move puts Google a step ahead of rival software titan Microsoft Corp. , which plans a similar product for later this year.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- In its bid to displace Microsoft in controlling the desktop, Google on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited desktop search toolbar.