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Google's Desktop Search Leaves Beta
News Other additions to Google Desktop include support for searching email in Netscape mail and Thunderbird. The Mountain View, California, company has released a PC application for searching Microsoft Office documents, images, email and Internet...
[March 7, 2005, 8:05]
Microsoft Announces Desktop Search Tool Date
News In July, Microsoft bought Lookout Software, which has a program for searching within Outlook email. The tool and an algorithmic Web searching engine will be in beta testing by year's end, a representative said on Friday.
[October 25, 2004, 8:20]
Apple, Google And Symantec Top Loyalty Stakes
Talkback I spend 90% of my working day using google searching for information, but why do i use google? I have been searching the web sicne the 90s and i have not found anything to even closely rival google. So dont talk shit, it has not be shown that msn...
[July 14, 2006, 17:28]
Google's Search Will Go Beyond The Browser
Leader The obvious Google-shaped hole is local searching, where Microsoft has a history of conspicuous failure. A browser plug-in that amalgamated general file management with knowledge of Outlook, multimedia data types and online searching would be...
[September 24, 2004, 12:35]
Google Takes Aim At A Mobile Future
News When you're on your mobile device and you type in the keyword "movie", you're likely to be searching for a cinema because you want to go and see a movie. But if you typed in "movie" on your desktop at home, you may be searching for more general...
[November 29, 2006, 8:50]
Google Desktop Flaws Get Patches
News It allows Google Desktop users, no matter which browser they are in, to switch between searching the internet and searching their computer from the Google home page, according to the Watchfire report.
[February 22, 2007, 8:44]
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. Improved searching features in Microsoft's plans for the next-generation...
[August 26, 2004, 12:35]
Google Custom Search Goes Global
News The business edition of Google Custom Search Engine starts at around £50 per year for searching up to 5000 pages. The annual charge for searching up to 300,000 pages is around £1,125, while those wanting to support larger volumes of pages need to...
[November 20, 2007, 14:06]
Apple Puts The Spotlight On Desktop Search
News Developers also can write programs that incorporate Spotlight-based searching, which is not possible with downloaded software such as Google's that might not be on a particular user's hard drive. Because the operating system controls the file...
[January 12, 2005, 8:30]
The Problem With PageRank (and One Alternative)
Blog PageRank is also not the right solution for HTML-based internal corporate content either, such as Intranets, simply because when searching your Intranet for information, all your data should have a high reputation.
[February 1, 2007, 14:34]
Are You A Secret Googlewhacker?
News Named after the popular Google search engine, Googlewhacks, and the game of finding them (or Googlewhacking), are the latest pursuit of legions of bored and increasingly obsessed Web surfers searching for the next big thing.
[January 30, 2002, 14:19]
Microsoft's Plan To Google Hard Drives
News If Microsoft is successful, the net result would likely be greater data interoperability and much improved viewing and searching. The idea is to retrieve a bunch of things without you explicitly searching for them.
[November 25, 2003, 15:05]
Fraudsters Search Google For Credit-card Numbers
News The rise of such Web sites has convinced @Stake's Wysopal that major credit issuers should start using Google as a security tool, searching for vulnerabilities and leaked information before other, potentially malicious, people find the data.
[August 4, 2004, 8:45]
Patents Crucial In Search Battle
News Meanwhile, Microsoft holds general search-related patents including methods for searching directory listing information, a system for improving search area selection and a third for "concept" searching using a Boolean or keyword search engine.
[July 18, 2003, 12:52]
VoIP Search And SFX App Launched
News Privately held United Virtualities, based in New York, on Monday introduced downloadable software for recording and searching phone conversations via VoIP. United Virtualities' software, developed internally, lets people keep a record of their...
[March 29, 2005, 9:55]
Amazon Refuses To Hand Over Book Search 'secrets'
News The internet retailer on Friday filed the response and objection to a subpoena Google had filed concerning Amazon's searching and indexing functions for book texts. Amazon.com has declined to hand over information on its book search tools to Google...
[October 26, 2006, 11:20]
Google: Google Basics
White Papers Google defaults to searching for occurrences of the specified keywords anywhere in the page, whether side-by-side or scattered throughout. If one specifically wants words to appear together on a page for a match to be made, let Google know by...
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
Hacking Windows XP
White Papers The person doesn't have to settle for that built-in searching, though, because one can build their own Firefox search engine plug-in to search through any site from the Google search box. Firefox's built-in search box lets one search Google from...
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
Google Admits Desktop Security Risk
News Google Desktop allows indexing and searching of PCs' hard drives, and sharing of information through a feature called Search Across Computers. Businesses have been warned by research company Gartner that the latest Google Desktop Beta has an...
[February 20, 2006, 15:40]
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]
