Both Baidu and Google are clashing in a market of 450 million Chinese Internet desktop search users.
Lookout predates most of the other desktop search programs, but it is predominantly designed to search within Outlook.
And he adds that Instant on mobile could prove even more important than adding the service to desktop search.
Free, easy, and complete -- everything you'd want in a desktop search tool.
Many cite concern that the desktop search market is waning and the company is not tapping into mobile yet.
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It was very easy, via tabs on the desktop search, to switch between searches of documents and searches of e-mails.
Ben Schachter from Macquarie Securities noted that in September, desktop search volume fell in the US for the first time ever.
Earlier this month, Google complained that Vista had made it tougher for consumers to use desktop search applications offered by Microsoft competitors.
Google is still trying to crack the secret of monetizing mobile technology, which so far hasn't proven as lucrative as its desktop search business.
But, from where I sit, Google is severely threatened by this rapid shift to mobile from the good old days of the desktop search world.
Also, this week Google announced Google Desktop, a free downloadable application that combines desktop search with a sidebar that links to Web searches and personal files.
The MSN toolbar also comes with a desktop search application which indexes the contents of your local computer so you can find files and messages quickly.
Microsoft agreed to allow computer manufacturers and consumers to select a default desktop search program just as they can with third-party Web browsers and media players.
The Google Desktop search tool is as speedy and accurate as its far-famed online search engine, though some people are alarmed by a persistent (and reeking of hogwash) rumor that it potentially compromises user privacy.
That said, for users running Microsoft Windows and using Outlook as their mail client, Microsoft's MSN desktop search beats its competitors hands down, primarily because of a superior user interface that integrates better with other Windows programs.
The software giant agreed to change its freshly released Windows Vista operating system Tuesday to make it easier to use desktop search programs from competitors, bowing to a complaint by search company Google ahead of a hearing to review Microsoft's compliance with a 2002 anti-trust deal.
Distinguishing mobile search from desktop search is meaningless when users use their tablets at home, perform activities that they would have performed at home away from home on mobile devices simply because they can, and where users sometimes search for places to go (for example) on mobile devices while out and sometimes on their computers before they leave.
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Its 50m lines of code include better security, a sophisticated desktop-search tool and new navigational designs.
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In pushing local search, it also added a desktop-based search even for people who are not logged in to Foursquare.
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And when it comes to winning in a new technology which has made it both the leader of desktop and mobile search ads Google has shined a light on a powerful strategic approach.
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The announcement also includes image search on desktop in which user can upload any image or incorporate an image URL into Google search for the identification of that image.
Many against one, these parties will escalate the search wars as the desktop web goes ever mobile and cloud based.
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Users are simply too familiar with this Web search pattern on a desktop browser to be ready for radical changes in the product for mobile.
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In my case, I've installed a search engine called Google Desktop that lets me quickly scour my hard drive for files, and a product by Xobni Corp. that does something similar for Outlook email, even though neither is approved by my IT department.
Kayak recently passed one billion search total search queries across mobile and desktop for 2012.
Microsoft has obviously outthought me, putting the link I need right on my desktop to save me the need to search.
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In the future, Facebook should launch new services like Graph Search on mobile first and desktop second, says Ty Amell, CEO of StackMob, a cloud-based mobile platform for developers.
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Wajam, an up-and-coming player in the social search space, is going beyond the desktop with social recommendatios for iOS users, which provides access to friend data across social networks when using Mobile Safari.
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Reuters Insider, a new video platform designed exclusively for financial professionals, and Thomson Reuters Eikon, a financial desktop platform that takes its cues from the intuitive search, engaging interfaces and seamless mobile interchange for professionals.
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The narrow sense is in being able to search almost all of the web from a desktop.
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