Desktop search avalanche set to hit
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DECEMBER 10, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Ask Jeeves Inc. are all set to jump into the desktop search market, two months after Internet search leader Google Inc.
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The logic behind Google (GOOG ) Desktop Search is simple enough: Why shouldn&#39;t the best tool for finding things on the Web do equally well at helping people search their own computers?
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Google has unveiled a long awaited beta of its desktop search engine technology. Called Google Desktop Search, the software enables users to find files that are stored on their own computers in the same way they would retrieve data from the Web.
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Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves are all set to jump into the desktop search space, two months after internet search leader Google offered a test version
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The privately held company today released free desktop search software in a move some see as a test of the product's market viability in what is becoming a crowded field.
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Microsoft Corp., world largest software maker, introduced its desktop search feature on Monday, taking aim at Google with its beta desktop search functionality.
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The turf battle for desktop search is heating up, with Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and now Ask Jeeves all fielding entries. Their strategies vary, but all hope to win the dominant position on personal computer users&#39; desktops.
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Unless you live under a rock the size of Canada you&#39;ve heard or read something this week about desktop search. Google sparked considerable interest with its Desktop Search launch in October, and the past few
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Ask Jeeves will launch a desktop search tool to compete with similar software recently announced by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. The desktop-search market is heating up as Web-search vendors
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December 10, 2004. Making clear its intention to stay a player in the search wars, Yahoo! announced plans this morning to introduce a free, high-speed desktop search tool after the first of the year.
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The &quot;in&quot; item for big four of the search industry (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and, Ask Jeeves) is Desktop Search utilities. By early next year, all the major search platforms will/should have a branded, functional
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Company joins heavyweights Google, MSN, and others in desktop search fray.
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Ask Jeeves has launched a beta desktop search application, capping off a very busy year in the desktop search space.
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Google&#39;s Desktop Search application, released as a preview this month for Windows XP and 2000 PCs, searches the hard drive of your PC using the same algorithms that have made its Internet search engine fast, accurate and popular.
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InfoWorld - Desktop search has its sights set on corporate PCs, leaving enterprise IT wary of potential security issues associated with the highly anticipated tools.
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Yahoo will release a desktop search tool in early 2005, joining other search engines looking to catalog a variety of information beyond Web pages, the company said Friday.
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Google&#39;s latest service, Desktop Search, promises to be one of its most interesting innovations, and also one of its more controversial ones.