The search advertising company has been prepping anti-virus scanning for its web-based email client, a development sure to spur antacid sales at places like Symantec and McAfee.
Size Less Important Than User Utility
Last week saw the resumption of the search engine size wars in which one major search engine claims to be larger than its rivals, prompting those rivals to rapidly upsize themselves. Yahoo fired the first round at Google, claiming to have over 20 billion objects accessible in their database. Google, which can only claim about 13 billion objects fired back with questions about measurements, basically stating Yahoo was mistaken or misleading in its claims.
Yahoo Updates Desktop Search Utility
While the desktop search craze (if there really was one) may have subsided some, that doesn’t mean developers are going to stop improving their product.
Utility Problems Back In The Former USSR
The Russian capital experiences blackouts throughout the city, and created an incredible mess.
Copernic Updates Desktop Search Utility
Copernic, considered one of the pioneers of desktop search, has announced an update to their utility, taking CDS up to version 1.5.
Google Launches Desktop Search Utility
With desktop search being one of the remaining frontiers for the search engine industry, there is competition to see who can develop an effective means of searching contents on a computer. Recently, a few software packages have upped the ante considerably. Copernic, Blinkx, and the announcement of Mac’s Spotlight are a few of the better-developed solutions.
KDE To Develop Google-Style Desktop Search Utility
Citing a need for a search utility that performs “crawling, indexing, ranking and displaying”, the developers at KDE have announced their intentions of including a desktop search utility when the newest version of KDE is released. The reason for the creation of such a utility comes from the fact that the developers of KDE believe it’s easier to search for files on the Internet than it is to do so on home computers.
Using Windows XP: Windows XP System Configuration Utility
One of the tools included with Windows XP is the System Configuration Utility, a diagnostic program that automates routine troubleshooting tasks. This is the same tool that Microsoft Technical Support engineers will use when walking you through a system with problems. Giving it a look might save you a great deal of time and effort when attempting to solve system issues.