Google Desktop Outshines Windows' File-Search Capabilities
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Google is famed for its Web search engine, but over the past few years it has acquired a different role: Microsoft's No. 1 foreign aid donor. First, Google fixed some of Internet Explorer's worst defects with its Google Toolbar, a free add-in that blocks pop-up ads and provides a shortcut to (naturally) Google's search engine and an auto-fill option to complete Web forms. Now it has released the Google Desktop, another free program that fixes an equally glaring weakness of Windows: its woeful file-searching capabilities.
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WITH GOOGLE nipping at its heels, Microsoft has just released a beta edition of its new MSN Desktop Search application. Like Google&#39;s very similar product, Desktop Search builds an index of documents and e
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Dragging and dropping files into well-organized desktop folders can be a chore for everyone but the most fastidious. A new technology, however, aims to do most of the work for you.
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SEATTLE - Microsoft has become the second tech-industry giant to offer software for searching through computer desktops, a technology it claims is superior to that launched by Google two months ago.
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Google unveiled a desktop search agent yesterday that lets users find any information stored on their computer, including visited Web pages, files and e-mail as well as instant messages.
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Be Careful with Google Desktop Search  Google Desktop Search like most Google products makes an awesome first impression. I have tried other desktop search tools, but none of them can match the convenience that Google Desktop Search comes with. It is just a 450K download and it integrates in Google Search ...
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Forensic files: Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) on Thursday rolled out a seminal version of its new desktop tool, enabling users to scrutinize hard drives as they would Web sites.
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It should be as easy to search a computer as it is to search the Web. And Google, the current king of Web-searching, recently introduced a new desktop program for Windows
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Microsoft debuted a test-version of a new desktop search product Monday that scans hard drives for information in saved e-mails, pictures, Web pages, PDF files, and word processing documents, among other files.
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Google has developed an add-on for the desktop search tool it unveiled last month. Called gdSuite, it gives its search function a Windows-like interface, Gartner research director Allen Weiner tells NewsFactor.
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Search engine's free program fixes a glaring weakness in Windows: its woeful file-searching capabilities.-Rob Pegoraro
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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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MicrosoftÂ has joined the desktop search fray with its release Monday of the beta test version of a suite of tools designed to let users find information stored in their PCs.
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Users can search by file format, size, and duration.
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Desktop search means a new battle for dominance between a wide field of competitors, and the warfare has begin. The technology promises users an incredibly fast way to search for data on their drives.
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Google Inc. unveiled a desktop search application that lets users catalog and search through e-mail, files, Web histories, instant message chats and other content on their PCs.
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Desktop Search from AOL, Google &#038; Others  Search engines, portals and browser systems are trying to get off of the Internet and your desktop and into your hard drives, email, and private files. By taking advantage of a basically lame Windows Search tool used by Microsoft since the dawn of MS ...