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Desktop Detectives. IWR LABS: There is a growing realisation that users are spending too much time hunting for information - either on the web or on their desktop PCs. It's time to integrate the two and make the process easier. Davey Winder explores this new frontier.

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A recent Butler Group Review paper on business intelligence (February 2005) reports that anywhere up to 80% of a knowledge worker's time is spent hunting for information, and 80% of corporate information is held on users' desktop PCs.

Clearly, the time for desktop search has come. A new breed of (mostly free) desktop search offerings from some of the best-known internet search brands is challenging the information sector 'get-what-you-pay-for' tradition.

While there is no such thing as a free lunch, if you are mindful of its limitations, there is plenty of potential to be exploited. Limitations? When it comes to the internet element of a search, trusted ...

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