Web watch: Google desktop
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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 has released Google Desktop Search, which enables users to search their desktop computers using the same technology as Google&#39;s online-search tool.
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InfoWorld - Google has released a new version of its desktop search tool, adding a preview feature to help find information more quickly and making some improvements to the interface design.
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Google's Desktop Search application indexes a PC hard drive when it's not being used
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With four in the last week, is Google the next security buffoon? Analysis Google's desktop search application is vulnerable to an exploit that allows a determined attacker to remotely run most programs installed on a victim's machine. The flaw is one of at least four security holes to visit Google this past week, demonstrating that the search king, despite the god-like aura it enjoys for its pleasing software designs, remains a mere mortal in the security cosmos.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Just one day after a security researcher showed how Google'sÂ Firefox toolbar could be exploitedÂ in an online attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in the Google Desktop. On Thursday, Google hacker Robert Hansen posted proof of concept details showing how attackers could use Google Desktop to launch software that had already been installed on the victim's computer. The attack is hard to pull off and could not necessarily be used to install unauthorized software on the victim's PC, but it does illustrate the kind of security issues that arise with Web-based applications, said Hansen, the CEO of Web security consultancy Sectheory.com, and a contributor to the Ha.ckers.org Web site. "When you have third parties writing code that interacts with your browser, it inherently breaks the browser security model," he said. To exploit Hansen's Google Desktop vulnerability, an attacker would first have to launch a successful "man-in-the-middle" attack, somehow placing himself between the victim and Google's servers. This could by done by tricking the victim into logging onto a malicious wireless network, Hansen said. Once this was done, the hacker could launch Hansen's attack by changing the Web pages being delivered to the victim's PC. By returning Web pages that have been doctored with new JavaScript code, the victim could be tricked into clicking onto a malicious link, Hansen said. "When they actually click that mouse button, they're not clicking on the Web page, they're clicking on a link to Google Desktop that actually runs code, " he said. The steps Hansen took to pull off the attack are complex because of the security features that Google has built into its software, he added. "What I've done is combine a lot of different attacks that Google desperately tries to prevent." On Wednesday researcher Christopher Soghoian showed how a man-in-the-middle attack could be used to install malicious software on computers that used a variety of popular Firefox add-ons, including the toolbars from Google, Yahoo, and AOL. Hansen has posted a video showing how this attack could be used to launch Windows HyperTerminal. But it could be used to launch virtually any application that has already been installed on the PC, he said. This isÂ not the first bug in Google Desktop. In February, engineers at WatchfireÂ showed how a flaw in the program's Advanced Search Feature could be used to gain access to data or even run unauthorized software on a victim's computer. Two days after the Watchfire bug was disclosed, Hansen himself showed how attackers couldÂ steal information from Google Desktop usersÂ using what is called an anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning attack. Google was not immediately available to comment for this story. Â
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Online search engine leader Google Inc. (GOOG) is setting its sights on the computer desktop with a new software program that promises to scour through the clutter of documents, e-mails, instant messages and other files stored on hard drives.
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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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[Technology India]: London, Oct 15: If you frequently waste a lot of time searching for files on your PC, help is at hand for Google has released a preliminary version of a desktop program that will search computer hard drives, as well as the web.
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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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Known for its Internet search engine, Mountain View-based Google Inc. on Thursday announced a beta desktop search application that it says enables users to search their e-mail, files, web history, and chats.
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The web services company shows off its next-generation browser-based mail client, an answer to Google's Gmail. Plus: TechCrunch announces an enterprise blog.... More live coverage from the
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Google Inc. launched a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years after the product&#39;s launch for the Windows operating system.
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Google Desktop Search Has Launched  Google quietly launched its Google Desktop Search today and a slew of bloggers have tested it, reviewed it, and are currently testing it, including yours truly. Google Desktop is a frightfully fast application which searches desktop documents, web browser history, and chat room conversations (in AOL's ...