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Google Announces Desktop Search
Google Desktop Search for Email, Files, Web History, and
Instant Message Chats
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 14, 2004 - Google Inc. today
announced a beta desktop search application that enables users
to search their email, files, web history, and chats. Called
Google Desktop Search, this new application makes it possible
for users to find information on their computers as fast and
easily as they can search the web with Google.
"Google Desktop Search brings the power of Google to your
personal information on your own computer. As easily as
searching Google, you can instantly search your files, local
email, the web pages you have seen, and more," said Larry
Page, Google's co-founder and president of products." It's
free, installs quickly, and keeps completely up to date.
Google Desktop Search represents a quantum leap in access to
your own information."
Google Desktop Search is a lightweight, free, downloadable
application that brings Google search to information on your
computer. The application operates locally on the user's
computer, where it provides the following capabilities:
- Find email, files and more. Users can search across their
email and a wide range of files and information such as email
in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express; files in Microsoft
Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and text; website
history in Internet Explorer; and instant message chats in AOL
Instant Messenger.
- Searches fast like Google. Google.com can search billions of
web pages in a fraction of a second. Google Desktop Search is
built with the same technology, and it can search a single
hard drive in even less time.
- Easy access to desktop results via Google.com Search. Google
Desktop Search enables users to search both their computer and
the web simultaneously. When users search through Google.com
(either from the homepage or the Google Toolbar), Google
Desktop Search runs the same search in parallel on the user's
computer. If Google Desktop Search finds relevant results,
those results are added to the Google.com search results page.
This means, users don't need to decide before they search
whether to search the web or their computer. From a single
start point, they get both.
- Fresh, dynamic results. Unlike traditional computer search
software that updates once a day, Google Desktop Search
updates continuously for most file types. When a user
downloads a new email in Outlook, for example, it can be found
within seconds using Google Desktop Search.
As with all Google products, Google Desktop Search is designed
from the ground up to respect user privacy. When a user
chooses to search simultaneously across his or her computer
and Google.com, the computer's content is not made accessible
to Google, or to anyone else, without the user's express
permission. Users can select what information they want to
have searched, and easily remove information whenever they
want.
Google Desktop Search is available at
http://desktop.google.com
It is currently available for Windows XP and Windows 2000
Service Pack 3 and above. It requires a minimum of 128MB of
RAM, and a 400MHz (or faster) Pentium processor is
recommended. Google Desktop Search is available in English
today and there are plans to make it available in other
languages.
About Google Inc.
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of
people around the world with information every day. Founded in
1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin,
Google today is a top web property in all major global
markets. Google's targeted advertising program, which is the
largest and fastest growing in the industry, provides
businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while
enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is
headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout North
America, Europe, and Asia.
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Google is a trademark of Google Inc. All other company and
product names may be trademarks of the respective companies
with which they are associated.
Bottom Line: The Google Desktop Search product is a
great way to index a persons emails, files, photos, web pages,
and IM. Productivity will increase with the use of Google
Desktop Search and the price is right. We recommend this
product to most windows users. We are trying to find ways to
occupy our time now that we can find information quickly on
our desktops. Thank you Google, this is something that
Microsoft has promised and not delivered. We will wait until
the end of 2004 for Microsoft's search tool.
This is a great tool for an individual PC user.
Enterprises need to put together a policy on how to integrate
Google Desktop Search into their current systems.
Free Toolbar that works with Google Desktop Search and
Google Web and Google Search Appliance or Mini.
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