Google delves through dark corners of the hard drive
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The modern PC is a marvel, a machine that lets an ordinary person with little training create a document, check its spelling, dress it up with graphics, send it electronically to someone across the globe - and then save it accidentally into some dark
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People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new privacy risk to worry about: Google&#39;s free tool that indexes a PC&#39;s contents for quickly locating data.
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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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Google&#39;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&#39;t easily locate.
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While Google has risen in prominence and popularity, the details of its search software, even though it is open source, are largely unknown to outsiders.
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Now that digital cameras have overtaken film cameras in sales, users are beginning to encounter a familiar problem: bulging image files and folders filling up computer hard drives.
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Google has patched a hole in its search engine that could have allowed malicious hackers to modify the content of the Google search results page or silently modify search results.
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The impact of heavy use on hard disk drive failure may by overstated, says a report by three Google engineers.
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Ogling Google can be a dangerous pastime.
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From screens that mysteriously black out to search that's limited by default, here are the things that really bug us about Microsoft's new operating system.
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Google Inc., the search engine whose clean, minimalist home page was a stark contrast to the link-laden Web portals of the late 1990s, made a tiny tweak to its site last week that may have much bigger repercussions.
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While digital photography has freed up closet space, sorting and retrieving pictures in the era of the 250-gigabyte hard drive has created a set of challenges of its own.
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In a move that beats competitors Yahoo, Microsoft, America Online and AskJeeves to the starting gate, Internet search giant Google on Thursday unveiled a program enhancement that searches Web pages plus e-mails, pictures, music and other documents on your hard drive.
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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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If you use shared or public computers, you have a new privacy risk to consider: Google Desktop Search. Announced last week and currently available in a beta version, Google Desktop Search allows you to scour
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If you use shared or public computers, you have a new privacy risk to consider: Google Desktop Search.
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Google Inc. locates almost anything on the Web within seconds, but finding the brainy engineers who program the company's lightning-quick search engine takes more time &#151; and a quirky bit of ingenuity.