Google Unveils Desktop Search

KingFishKingFish
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
Google on Thursday unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files and Web history stored locally on a PC, a move that could shake up the landscape of Internet search and raise privacy hackles.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which will report earnings for the first time as a public company next week, has created Google Desktop Search, a thin-client application that lets people retrieve e-mail, Microsoft Office documents, AOL chat logs and a history of Web pages previously viewed, all via a Web browser. "It's like photographic memory for your computer--if you've seen it before, you should be able to find it," said Marissa Mayer, director of consumer Web products at Google.
Source: ZDNet

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  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited October 2004
    I was gonna try this earlier today, just to check it out. Apparently, it's incompatible with a LOT of software ... NetLimiter being one of them. I'd much rather have control over my internet than a search engine ;):p
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