is set to push its Desktop Search program into general availability on Wednesday. Desktop Search includes a new feature called LiveWords, which allows people to highlight text within documents and click a button to search for those words in other...
Google has fixed a flaw that allowed hackers to search the contents of a PC running its desktop search tool. A Google spokeswoman said: "We were made aware of this vulnerability with the Google Desktop Search software and have since fixed the...
In December, the internet portal announced it would soon begin testing desktop search technology, which it has licensed from Pasadena, California-based X1 Technologies. has put its stake in the desktop-search ground following rivals Microsoft...
Google is adding new features to its Desktop search program, including further customisation of the Sidebar and the ability to send information directly to a friend's desktop, search on multiple computers at once and lock the search function with...
plans to start testing a downloadable desktop search application in early January. Now desktop search is really about people's hard drive," Jeff Weiner, Yahoo's vice president of search and marketplace, said in an interview.
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...