Google Desktop Escalates Search Engine Wars

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By Jennifer LeClaire
E-Commerce Times
10/14/04 11:14 AM PT

Google Desktop Search is a free, downloadable tool that lets users search through e-mail, instant messages, text files and the Internet simultaneously. The new software, designed with user privacy in mind, ensures that the computer's content is not accessible to Google or anyone else.

In its first major innovation since its August IPO, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) has launched a desktop search engine tool that allows users to search personal computer files at the same speed they 'google' the Web. The new application throws the gauntlet directly in Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) front court.

'Google Desktop Search brings the power of Google to your personal information on your own computer,' said Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president of products. 'As easily as searching Google, you can instantly search your files, local e-mail, the Web pages you have seen, and more.'

Google Desktop Search is a free, downloadable application ...