Computer Q&amp;A: Security should be focus in desktop search battle
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The battle is on for your desktop. If it&#39;s anything like many previous computer wars, it will be fought with features as the primary weapons.
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Computer scientists have discovered a potentially serious flaw in Google&#39;s desktop search utility that could allow attackers to steal information.
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Google's new Desktop Search software is a muscle car among search engines, racing through personal data stored inside your computer to instantly find things you can't easily locate.
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It&#39;s not just the privacy issue of multiple users on a computer and the tool indexing everyone&#39;s contents anymore. According to a Rice University computer scientist, the flaw could allow an attacker to search
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Desktop search can help you sort through your computer's contents
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Ask Jeeves yesterday joined Microsoft in introducing a beta desktop search application. Ask Jeeves states that its Desktop Search makes it easy for people to find information on their computers or the Internet.
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Revamped Google Desktop improves security, adds preview and 'sidebar.'
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NEW YORK -- It was supposed to be a tool to help people find stuff on their hard drives. But experts are warning that Google&#39;s new search engine for computers may leave a person&#39;s personal information at risk if they use shared computers.
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Internet company Yahoo announced yesterday that it is at work on a desktop search product. The offering would allow people to search their own PCs as easily as they can currently search the internet.
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Google Desktop Search is an amazing little tool. It allows you to search your computer more quickly, completely and intuitively than Windows&#39; search feature.
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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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Desktop Searches are nothing like buses. Not even buses arrive five at a time. But with Ask Jeeves and Microsoft both launching new desktop searches to rival Google&#39;s, and with Yahoo!
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The way federal agents search digital devices, such as laptops and BlackBerries, has come under scrutiny in a new lawsuit. "Our position is there should be some suspicion of wrongdoing before the government can search," an attorney says. The government stands by its searches.
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Potential distractions at the computer are ever present and enticing. So research is aiming at ways to keep you focused.
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A study from security vendor McAfee found that search query results returned by Google, AOL, and Ask.com are less likely to lead viewers to dangerous Web sites than they were six months ago. The study also found that Yahoo and MSN are not following that trend toward safer search results.
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People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new security risk to worry about: Google&#39;s free new tool that indexes a PC&#39;s contents for quickly finding data.
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Blog: New behavior-monitoring protection for the desktop is designed to compliment features in existing Symantec products.