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.
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.
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.
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.
Both Baidu and Google are clashing in a market of 450 million Chinese Internet desktop search users.
Because of the severely clogged WiFi network at the venue, the Chrome browser (now a standard app) took just about 15-plus seconds to load a simple Google search and even more to render the full Engadget desktop site.
Earlier this month, Google complained that Vista had made it tougher for consumers to use desktop search applications offered by Microsoft competitors.
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.
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.
If App Stores are going to intercept web search, Google stands to be less relevant for those queries and users than it is on the desktop.
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