The software uses a similar searching technique to Autonomy's Genjin tool. The WebCheck tool sits on the desktop and lets users search on any amount of text and click for related information. Web software and services company, Bright Station, has...
Technologies such as server clustering and BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), a complex application for protein analysis, have evolved to help scientists get a better grip on the mushrooming quantities of biomedical data they must analyse.
Microsoft's MSN has unveiled desktop-search technology, entering a hotly contested race to dominate information access on the PC. The software lets people search the contents of their hard drive, including Microsoft Outlook email, calendar items...
Google has fixed a flaw that allowed hackers to search the contents of a PC running its desktop search tool. According to a statement from the Web search company on Monday, it has rolled out a fix for the vulnerability that a US computer scientist...
Developers also can write programs that incorporate Spotlight-based searching, which is not possible with downloaded software such as Google's that might not be on a particular user's hard drive. Because the operating system controls the file...
Google has made an adjustment to its desktop search tool to foil attacks that take advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer web browser. He crafted a web page which, when viewed in IE on a computer with...