“Google on Thursday unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files and Web history stored locally on a PC, a move that could shake up the landscape of Internet search and raise privacy hackles.
“It’s like photographic memory for your computer–if you’ve seen it before, you should be able to find it,” said Marissa Mayer, director of consumer Web products at Google.
Rumored for months, Google’s unveiling of desktop search trumps rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online in the race to integrate Web navigation with PC search and stay on the cutting edge of search technology in people’s minds. Desktop search has been earmarked a priority by all the major search engines, but among investors and analysts Microsoft has posed the biggest threat to Google’s reign because of its dominance with the Windows operating system.”
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