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Editor's View - Kings of all they survey?
Type the character string "Google world domination" into a certain web search engine, and you'll get back 700,000 results (a very precise and exact figure don't you think?). Type in "Microsoft world domination", however, and a mere 546,000 results come back. The site in question is google.com, and the results suggest that good old Bill Gates has a challenger for the mantle of "Evil Emperor", though, in this case, one with two heads.
Hell, the Browser Wars of the late 1990s, where Microsoft effectively massacred market-maker Netscape, are a bust-up in a nursery compared to what is developing around desktop search. Google's latest beta of its Desktop Search 2 contender (see story opposite and review on page 27) is one of the great technological leaps of the year. Your users will love it.
I personally can't wait for the keynote session at this year's Online Information Conference on Desktop Search - representatives of Google, Yahoo, MSN and Blinkx all in one room together, hopefully having a jolly good ding-dong (see page 25, and book early!). It should beat the WWF finals - and, hopefully, where there's ...
- Google Announces Desktop Search; Google Desktop Search for Email, Files, Web...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 14, 2004 700+ words
...history, and chats. Called Google Desktop Search, this new application makes...search the web with Google. "Google Desktop Search brings the power of Google...keeps completely up to date. Google Desktop Search represents a quantum leap...
- Google Launches Desktop Search 1.0; Extending Desktop Search to PDF, Music,...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 7, 2005 700+ words
...announced the formal launch of Google Desktop Search, a free downloadable application...Korean language interfaces. "Google Desktop Search brings the power of Google...fingertips. We're proud to take Google Desktop Search out of beta, and we will...
- Google Desktop Search Goes Corporate; New Desktop Search Application Offers...
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 18, 2005 700+ words
...GOOG) today announced Google Desktop Search for Enterprise. This free...application for consumers, Google Desktop Search for Enterprise adds new enterprise...With the addition of Google Desktop Search for Enterprise, businesses...
- Searching high and low: these three apps will help you find what you're looking...
- Magazine article from: Computer Shopper Bertolucci, Jeff Costa, Dan October 1, 2005 700+ words
...consumer desktop search engines like Copernic Desktop Search, Google Desktop Search, and the professional-grade DtSearch 7...CONS] or wizards to help you find your way. GOOGLE DESKTOP SEARCH With Google Desktop Search, Google ...
- Google brings search to the desktop.(Up front: news, trends & analysis)(Google...
- Magazine article from: Information Management Journal Swartz, Nikki January 1, 2005 700+ words
...mails, and other files. Google hopes its latest invention--Google Desktop Search--just might make the job...their results, and because Desktop Search does not require an Internet connection, Google cannot access the giant index...
- Google fixes flaw in desktop search tool.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) December 21, 2004 700+ words
...its preliminary, or beta, Google Desktop Search software, which is available...this vulnerability with the Google Desktop Search software and have since fixed...take advantage of the method Google Desktop Search uses to intercept outgoing...
- Desktop search tool has lame solution.(Google computer search tool)
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Coates, James January 25, 2006 700+ words
...when I try to use the Google Desktop search service to find files...open files after I did a Desktop search. The reason is Google doesn't seem to notice...The extremely useful Google Desktop search tool (http://desktop...
- Laplink Everywhere 4 Combines the Power of Google(TM) Desktop Search With the...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire Europe April 28, 2005 700+ words
...access solution to integrate Google(TM) Desktop Search capabilities, allowing...Everywhere 4 integrates Google Desktop Search allowing users to easily...other countries. Google and Google Desktop Search is a registered trademark...
