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Google versus the telecoms
November 30, 2007
If Google wins the 700MHz wireless spectrum auction in January, expect Google-branded phones galore.
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Citigroup Inc.
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Apple iPhone
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Copernic debuts desktop search tool
August 31, 2004
If navigating the desktop is the next frontier in search, there's now one more explorer.
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Yahoo enters desktop search
January 11, 2005
Portal becomes latest major Internet company to launch consumer software for searching e-mail and other files. Images: Yahoo's desktop search
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X1 Technologies
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Blinkx
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Adobe PDF
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Microsoft Outlook
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Microsoft Corp.
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Google Inc.
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e-mail
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PC
Google: We've fixed desktop search tool flaw
December 20, 2004
The flaw could have let an attacker search the contents of a user's PC. But the firm now says "all current and future users are secure." Images: Google's desktop search
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Blinkx launches desktop search for Mac
January 6, 2005
Search firm is one of the first to cater to Apple's loyalist audience--but it will have to compete with Tiger.
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Apple Computer
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PC
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Microsoft Corp.
Google unveils desktop search
October 14, 2004
Application lets people retrieve e-mail, office documents, AOL chat logs and a history of Web pages viewed, all via the browser. Screen shots of Google's Desktop Search tool
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America Online Inc.
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Google Inc.
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Time Warner Inc.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
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Search companies vie for the desktop
December 10, 2004
Microsoft plans to introduce test version of its desktop search app as tight year-end deadline looms.
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Ask Jeeves Inc.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
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Microsoft Windows
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AOL launches new portal, tests desktop search
October 14, 2004
Search feature will allow members to find photos, music and MS Office files stored on PC drives, in a challenge to Google and Microsoft.
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America Online Inc.
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Google Inc.
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Time Warner Inc.
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Yahoo to test desktop search
December 10, 2004
Net giant will introduce free software that helps people search the contents of their hard drives in a push to keep pace with Google.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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California
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Desktop search new target for viruses?
December 14, 2004
Security experts warn it's "just a matter of time" before virus writers eye desktop search tools.
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Graham Cluley
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Google Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
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Take control of your desktop chaos
November 16, 2004
Desktop search apps represent next frontier in jointly navigating the Web and operating system.
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folder
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server
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PC
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MSN joins desktop search fray
December 13, 2004
Beta software launch sees Microsoft take on Google, Yahoo and others in hotly contested race to dominate desktop search.
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Microsoft puts multisearch tool on show
July 29, 2004
Software giant demos prototype technology that can search both the Internet and a PC's hard drive.
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Microsoft Corp.
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Apple centers Spotlight on desktop search
January 11, 2005
CEO Steve Jobs touts his company's innovations in search coming with next Mac OS X upgrade.
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This week in tech heavyweight action
May 26, 2006
Microsoft showed us more of its vision of Vista, while Google, Dell, Yahoo and eBay continued jockeying for advantage.
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eBay Inc.
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Google Inc.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Windows Media
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Microsoft Office
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Microsoft Corp.
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Dell embraces Google
May 25, 2006
Deal between the search giant and the PC maker gets Google into new territory. It's a strike against Google rival Microsoft.
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Dell PC
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Google Inc.
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conference
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CEO
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Microsoft Corp.
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Week in review: Big boys get busy
May 26, 2006
Microsoft showed us more of its vision of Vista, while Google, Dell, Yahoo and eBay continued jockeying for advantage.
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IE flaw lets intruders into Google Desktop
December 2, 2005
Researcher finds a way to steal data from unwitting users of Google's desktop search tool by exploiting an unpatched IE flaw.
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Microsoft Corp.
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Designs on desktop search
January 12, 2004
Some major Web portals are trying to get an edge in the competitive Internet search market by thinking outside of the browser.
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taskbar
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