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Google Desktop Search Beta
Talkback After loading Google Desktop, my machine will not resume a from hibernation. I have to resort to complete restart. I am also worried about the security issues reported elsewhere.
[November 28, 2004, 9:24]
Google Desktop Search Beta
Talkback After installing Google desktop search. The Google search did work great but not worth the hassle. Every time i went to log off or shut down I got an error saying "rundll32.exe not responding" even after uninstalling this fault persisted.
[October 18, 2004, 11:10]
Google Desktop Search Beta
Talkback Google Desktop Search quickly exhausted my attention span. I think the world of Google, but this was a bridge too far. There was not one feature I need, want or like. I don't care about your weather.
[August 29, 2005, 18:38]
Google Desktop 5 Released
News Google has released its latest version of Google Desktop, which incorporates a new look and new features. Vista, the latest version of Windows, offers similar functionality to the desktop sidebar, but Google Desktop 5 appears to have taken the...
[April 27, 2007, 17:55]
Google Desktop Flaws Get Patches
News Several flaws in the popular Google Desktop software could open PCs up to intruders and possible data theft, a security company has warned. Google Desktop applies the same technology found in Google's search engine to let users try to find items on...
[February 22, 2007, 8:44]
Google Desktop Faces Elementary Threat
News A Chicago-based company is set to launch on Friday technology that will compete with Google Desktop Search and its Sidebar customisation feature. Like Google's Desktop Search and Sidebar, the software scours data from a variety of sources on the...
[September 23, 2005, 9:20]
Google Revamps Desktop
News Google is adding new features to its Desktop search program, including further customisation of the Sidebar and the ability to send information directly to a friend's desktop, search on multiple computers at once and lock the search function with...
[February 9, 2006, 9:15]
Google's Desktop Search Leaves Beta
News Google on Monday introduced a full version of its desktop-search software, with a developer's kit and support for Firefox and Netscape Web browsers. Google desktop search stores a copy of everything you see," said Nikhil Bhatla, a Google product...
[March 7, 2005, 8:05]
Google's Desktop Liberation Tool
Leader Google now has its search engine, an email application and desktop search. How about being able to go to any Web café, log on to Google, and recreate that desktop? If users one day log on to a Google desktop, work on documents, send and receive...
[October 15, 2004, 12:00]
Google Launches Desktop For Linux
News Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux, in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on the desktop. Google Desktop allows people to search the web while also searching the full text...
[June 28, 2007, 8:10]
Google Unveils Desktop Search
News Google on Thursday unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files on the PC and through a person's Web history, a move that could shake up the landscape of Internet search and raise privacy hackles.
[October 14, 2004, 15:40]
Google Desktop Search Beta
Talkback Final and conclusive proof that Google can search anything. PS: Anyone notice how Google software never gets out of beta? News, Groups, Gmail and now Desktop are still betas. Problem is that it's a very limited set of file types that it can search.
[November 4, 2004, 12:47]
Google Desktop Faces Elementary Threat
Talkback I don’t see this as a threat to Google's Desktop as their software is free and that’s because they depend on lots of people using it so it an easy transition for user to go from desktop to Google.com.
[September 24, 2005, 14:01]
KDE To Include Google-type Desktop Search
News Developers of the open-source Linux desktop environment KDE have announced plans to simplify searching for files on the KDE desktop by adding a Google-style search feature. We are planning a Google-like search system for the control panel, although...
[August 26, 2004, 12:35]
Privacy Concerns Over Google Desktop 3
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said on Thursday that a feature added to the latest version of Google Desktop has serious privacy implications. Google Desktop 3 Beta, which was released on Thursday, includes a feature that allows users to...
[February 10, 2006, 17:15]
Privacy Concerns Over Google Desktop 3
Talkback Thank you for your info on google desktop 3,i downloaded it and only then did i read your summary! yes i am a dill! I have now gotten rid of the thing.again thank you!
[February 10, 2006, 21:11]
Latest Google Desktop Sports New Features
News Google announced the finalised version of its Google Desktop 2 application on Thursday and outlined its new features. Google Desktop 2, a free downloadable application, combines desktop search and the Google Sidebar, a floating tool palette that...
[November 4, 2005, 12:55]
New Tools For Google Desktop
News Google has announced an update to its Google Desktop product and several new products designed to enhance information gathering on the Web. At its annual press day in the Googleplex at Mountain View, California, the search giant took the lid off...
[May 11, 2006, 9:05]
Autonomy Challenges Google With Enterprise Desktop Search Tool
News According to Autonomy, this means the tool is more useful than rival desktop search applications such as Google's. Information management company Autonomy is targeting the enterprise and small business market with a search tool to help users to...
[November 29, 2004, 16:15]
Google Under Pressure Over Desktop Search
Talkback Google wouldn't have a market for their tool if MS didn't suck so bad. What does MS need a desktop search tool for? Don't they already have one in Windows? Isn't this tatamount to acknowledging Windows search is lame?
[December 15, 2004, 10:42]
