Google unveils desktop search!

[News Writer]

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.

The 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 email, office documents, AOL chat logs and a history of Web pages previously viewed, all via the 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.

Rumoured for months, Google's unveiling of desktop search trumps rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online in the race to integrate Web navigation with PC search and stay on the cutting edge of search technology in people's minds. Desktop search has been earmarked a priority by all the major search engines, but among investors and analysts Microsoft has posed the biggest threat to Google's reign because of its dominance with the Windows operating system. The software giant has said its long-delayed version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, will bring Web search and PC file search to the operating system.

Source: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,3...9170345,00.htm

[Viper007Bond]

Been told it's good, but I have no use for it. I use folders.

[Dashken]

I almost never use search.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Dashken

I almost never use search.

Actually, it's very useful. Windows XP search is still too slow.

The upcoming Longhorn was supposed to address this but I think they junked that search feature. Even then, it's not going to come out for sometime. Microsoft...

[Viper007Bond]

Originally Posted by Dashken

I almost never use search.

Ditto.