Posts Tagged ‘Google Desktop’

Google Integrates Desktop Gadgets into iGoogle

Google hasn't been known to take the step of integrating their services together very frequently. They offer so many different services, yet often times many of them remain separate like Gmail and Google Reader. It's a natural combo for Google to put an RSS Reader in Gmail - after all, the new Yahoo Mail Beta has RSS integrated into it, as does the new Outlook and Thunderbird.

October 8th, 2007
Google Integrates Desktop Gadgets into iGoogle

Google Now Does Linux Desktop Search

Google has now branched their Desktop Search application across all of the major operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new Beta for Linux just hit the Web today and runs on KDE or GNOME under Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, or Red Flag 5. I’m sure those are just the minimum requirements and that it would run fine on Ubuntu 7.06 as well.

June 28th, 2007
Google Now Does Linux Desktop Search

Microsoft Loses the Search Battle; Vista SP1 Coming this Year

Well, it happened...again. Microsoft lost the war against Google in regards to the integrated search feature that Vista has. Google was upset at just how integrated the search capabilities are in Vista, and wanted a way to implement their own instant search throughout the operating system.

June 20th, 2007
Microsoft Loses the Search Battle; Vista SP1 Coming this Year

Google Introduces Google Desktop for Mac

Just today, Google has released Google Desktop for Mac in beta. It will index applications, PDF’s, files supported by Spotlight’s plug-ins, and the history to your web browser which then makes it possible to search.

April 4th, 2007
Google Introduces Google Desktop for Mac

Google Desktop Patched to Prevent Computer Takeover

A new version of Google Desktop is available about one-month after Google was notified of a vulnerability in the desktop search application. Watchfire, a web application security company, notified Google about the loop hole on January 4th, 2007 and Google was able to make an updated version available on February 1st, 2007.

February 22nd, 2007
Google Desktop Patched to Prevent Computer Takeover