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Microsoft announces desktop search tool date
News Yahoo executives have said the company plans a desktop search tool as well. Microsoft first demonstrated the technology for its own desktop search tool at a financial analysts' conference in July. Microsoft has set a firmer date for the release of...
[October 25, 2004, 8:20]
Google: We've fixed desktop search tool flaw
News Google has fixed a flaw that allowed hackers to search the contents of a PC running its desktop search tool. According to The New York Times , which first reported the discovery of the vulnerability, Wallach, Fogarty and Nielson found that the...
[December 20, 2004, 12:05]
Autonomy challenges Google with enterprise desktop search tool
News Information management company Autonomy is targeting the enterprise and small business market with a search tool to help users to find information on desktop PCs, corporate servers or the Internet. According to Autonomy, this means the tool is more...
[November 29, 2004, 16:15]
University Simplifies IT Management, Speeds Up File Search Time With Desktop Tool
White Papers To accommodate this request, the university installed the Windows Desktop Search tool, which enables users to easily and quickly find computer files. To address this issue, they requested a search tool that would help them reduce search times while...
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
Microsoft announces desktop search tool date
Talkback Trouble is, I trust Google to make a tool that'll index my hard drive and not tell them everything that's on it. On the other hand, Microsoft are known for their desire to know about everything on your PC.
[October 25, 2004, 10:28]
Google: We've fixed desktop search tool flaw
Talkback Still prefer Copernic Desktop Search.
[December 20, 2004, 13:17]
Microsoft announces desktop search tool date
Talkback Isn't it about time Microsoft had an ORIGINAL idea of their own. Besides which everything they release comes with BUGS as standard so who wants it. Plus Google are already street ahead with this idea.
[October 25, 2004, 11:49]
Microsoft's desktop search tool arrives
Talkback "The search software also helps people find information they're looking for by suggesting answers as soon as the user begins to type a letter" X' - Sorry, that search produced no results. User types 'L' - low cost Car Insurance!
[December 14, 2004, 10:03]
Google: We've fixed desktop search tool flaw
Talkback thats great for them.i doubt ill be using it anyway.googlebar on firefox is good enough for me.and i mainly use linux anyway
[December 21, 2004, 7:17]
Microsoft announces desktop search tool date
Talkback They'll have a bug ridden BETA version out by the end of the year. Which means middle of next year. The MS dork got one thing right though when he said it'll be fun to follow--as usual MS are following the real innovators.
[October 25, 2004, 21:24]
Microsoft announces desktop search tool date
Talkback Is Microsoft going to reinvent Explorer with really usable full text search functionality?
[October 26, 2004, 20:52]
Autonomy challenges Google with enterprise desktop search tool
Talkback Google has shown that enterprise search is accessible with genuine relevant results. Google has been the first vendor to raise awareness in the marketplace that 'search' is not niche but extremely important to the bottomline.
[September 1, 2006, 11:32]
Autonomy challenges Google with enterprise desktop search tool
Talkback Google's tool does not offer any advantages to the enterprise market. Autonomies tool relies too much on a massive server infrastructure investment. The standard tool is free to download. New tools coming through such as CollectiveCortex look like...
[December 1, 2004, 11:52]
Microsoft's desktop search tool arrives
Talkback Then someone told me about Google Desktop Search so I tried it - brilliant! It's rubbish of the highest order. After wrestling with its insane UI for half-an-hour I binned it in disgust.
[December 17, 2004, 15:07]
Microsoft's desktop search tool arrives
News Microsoft's MSN has unveiled desktop-search technology, entering a hotly contested race to dominate information access on the PC. Microsoft has long planned to introduce technology for mining files on the desktop, but it has come later to the...
[December 14, 2004, 7:45]
Autonomy challenges Google with enterprise desktop search tool
Talkback I've been using autonomy for a number of years and there's a big difference between entering keywords into search box and autonomy's implicit querying (which they've also been using for years). Google isn't 'inside' the enterprise, despite what...
[November 29, 2004, 19:33]
Microsoft announces desktop search tool date
Talkback Now look again at the wording of the press release , they want us to think of this as a multi horse race - get behind your favourite, bet, vote whatever - "We're going to have a heck of a great race in search between Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
[October 25, 2004, 9:13]
iPureSearch Search Anything Desktop Tool
Downloads Search anything. Any Web site with a search engine can be added to this widget: Yahoo, Google images or Jeeves to a simple site search contained in a Web site. Comes ready with searches for general Web search, open directory, dictionary, wikipedia...
[October 13, 2005, 8:57]
Desktop Tool From Continental Streamlines Customer Check-In and Flight Search
White Papers Continental Airlines built a gadget for Windows Sidebar that allows customers to initiate searches for flight information or begin the online check-in process from the convenience of their own computer desktops.
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
Google's desktop liberation tool
Talkback quote from Terms and conditions: Google Desktop Search may collect certain non-personally identifiable information that resides on your computer no personally identifiable number, but each installation is given a unique ID that you can't turn off.
[October 15, 2004, 14:55]
