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Search Engine Watch
April 14, 2004
Chris Sherman |
HotBot's New Desktop Search Toolbar HotBot's new Desktop Search utility not only searches the web, it indexes files and email on your computer, making them searchable as well.   |
PC World
April 2005
Scott Dunn |
Find Your Local Files the Web Way in Windows The new (and free) MSN Toolbar Suite beta offers fast file searches, and more... The Copernic Desktop Search provides many of the same features. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Toolbars: Trash or Treasures? Search engines have tripped over each other this past year in offering up toolbars. Yet the insidious fault of toolbars lies in the over-reliance on the search engine that their constant presence engenders. |
PC World
November 2004
Dennis O'Reilly |
Find Files Fast Lots of programs promise to locate your data in a hurry. Our tests reveal the top tools for searching your hard drive and inbox. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2005
Cade Metz et al. |
Total Recall In recent months, several companies have introduced free applications that let you search your desktop as easily as you search the Web. We put eight of them to the test. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
Tara Calishain |
The Next Small Thing If you haven't tried a search toolbar yet, you're missing a great way to ease your searching. |
Search Engine Watch
August 31, 2004
Gary Price |
A New Player in Desktop Search Copernic, a well-known developer of web search tools, is entering the desktop search marketplace with the release of a new product. |
InternetNews
December 13, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Microsoft Enters Desktop Search Fray Microsoft officials announced the release of its own desktop search application Monday, hoping to make up Google ground established two months ago. |
Search Engine Watch
December 13, 2004
Chris Sherman |
MSN Joins the Desktop Search Fray Microsoft has launched its long anticipated desktop search application, and it's packed with promising features and tools that make it a strong contender coming out the gate. System requirements for MSN Desktop are listed here. |
PC World
October 2005
Dunn & Rebbapragada |
Deep File Divers A test of six desktop search utilities that scour your PC to uncover long-lost file treasures: Blinkx, Copernic Desktop Search, Google Desktop Search, MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search, Yahoo Desktop Search, and DtSearch... Mac Search: Apple's Search Spotlight. |
Search Engine Watch
May 16, 2005
Chris Sherman |
MSN Toolbar with Desktop Search Officially Launches After five months in beta, Microsoft has released the final version of its desktop search application, incorporating many new features based on extensive user feedback. |
BusinessWeek
January 10, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Desktop Search: The Game Is Afoot New tools have various strengths. Unfortunately, you can't safely run more than one desktop search program on your computer. |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2004
Gary Price |
A Better Search Tool for Finding Needles in Haystacks The NeedleSearch toolbar lets you capture the basic search functionality from any search engine, site search tool, or specialized database and put it at your command with a single click. |
Search Engine Watch
March 29, 2004
Gary Price |
Dogpile Enhances Toolbar with News Feeds Dogpile has rolled out a new version of its toolbar that adds an intriguing twist to its well-known web search capabilities, providing a built-in 'ticker' that tracks your favorite RSS feeds. |
InternetNews
December 1, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Times Online to Distribute Blinkx Toolbar Respected UK newspapers and search upstart Blinkx launch 'Times' Smart Search. |
InternetNews
June 8, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft Launches Tabbed Browsing Tool Microsoft has included tabbed browsing in an update to its MSN Search Toolbar for version 6 of Internet Explorer. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now offers suggested spelling corrections.... Altavista has loaded larger multimedia databases for its image, audio, and video searches... AOL Search has added an image search database... Ask Jeeves has sold off its enterprise search division... etc. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has expanded the number of file types it indexes... Gigablast has been rather busy -- adding full Boolean searching, the indexing of PDF and other file types, and some metatags... Google has introduced a new operator, the tilde, for searching synonyms... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
July 26, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Diigo Offers "Social Annotation" Tool Combining bookmarks with sharing, tagging, annotation and very powerful search tools, Diigo is an appealing, evolutionary step forward in how we find, consume and share information on the web. |
Search Engine Watch
September 15, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Swiss Army Knife Meets the Kitchen Sink Looking for a search toolbar, an RSS reader, online bookmark manager or web research manager? Look no further: Pluck incorporates all of these features into a single, elegant search tool. |
PC Magazine
August 24, 2005
Jamie Lendino |
Google Desktop 2.0 (Beta) Yahoo!'s still the king of desktop search but Google Desktop 2.0's sidebar offers a compelling new way to navigate both your own computer and the Internet. |
InternetNews
December 15, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Ask Jeeves Enters Desktop Search Game Ask Jeeves entered the desktop search competition with a beta version of its own service that scours users' computers. |
PC World
November 2005
Scott Spanbauer |
Get the Latest Web News Delivered to Your Desktop With RSS feeds, you can have articles from the Web come to you. |
PC World
August 30, 2006
Dennis O'Reilly |
First Look: New Tool Bar for Microsoft's Live Services Version 3 of Windows Live Toolbar integrates maps, desktop and Web search, and news-feed management. |
PC World
July 2004
Bob Stepno |
News on Demand Tired of browsing around the Web for timely information? RSS readers, one of the biggest new categories of software, deliver exactly the news you need--fast. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2005
Greg R. Notess |
Revisiting Past Technologies From browsers to toolbars to bookmarklets to RSS, technologies on the Web can alter the way in which we interact with that huge information space we call the Web. |
Information Today
Barbara Quint |
Amazon Introduces New Web Search Engine Amazon.com's technical research subsidiary, A9, has released a new search engine that combines Google searching of the Web with searches of Amazon's own full-text collection of books and site information from Amazon's Alexa service. |
PC Magazine
March 16, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Keeping a Clean Desktop I like having next to nothing on my desktop, usually just My Computer, My Network Places and Control Panel, though occasionally I'll add a folder for stuff I'm currently working on. |
PC World
October 2005
Laurianne McLaughlin |
Build a Better Browser Ready to make the most of today's Web? These 35 free downloads add invaluable new features to Internet Explorer and Firefox. |
Search Engine Watch
September 1, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Choosing an RSS Reader Choosing an RSS reader may seem like a daunting task, but it's actually quite easy, and a very low-risk proposition, as most feed readers are free to try. Some feed readers are web-based, and others are software products. |
InternetNews
February 10, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Toolbar For Firefox Yahoo beta release adds features for users of Mozilla's open source browser. |
PC World
January 30, 2007
Erik Larkin |
Build the Perfect Browser We tested dozens of add-ons to find tools that make the new versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox even more useful. |
Search Engine Watch
June 7, 2004
Gary Price |
A Search Engine for Pages You've Read Having problems finding that web page you saw recently? A new tool makes it easy to recall everything you've seen on the web, automatically indexing all of this content and creating your own personal web archive. |
InternetNews
June 21, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Adobe, Google Bundle Up Google Toolbar will be included with Adobe products, starting with Shockwave. |
PC Magazine
December 13, 2007
Michael Muchmore |
Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer The new Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer offers you added convenience, but also more chances to relinquish your online privacy. |
PC World
November 2001
Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Have You Clicked Your Links Toolbar Today? Get the most out of the Links toolbar, see full title paths in folder title bars, start up the way you want... |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb claims it has increased the size of its database to over 2 billion fully indexed Web pages... AltaVista now really defaults to a Boolean AND... Ask Jeeves has a new, simpler design... Google has been promoting its fee-based Google Answers... etc. |
PC Magazine
June 1, 2005
M. David Stone |
Listening to Office You may know you can speak text and commands to Office. But did you know Office can talk back? |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2004
Rich Duprey |
Google Ogles Your Hard Drive The company's Desktop Search utility is an impressive way to find information on your computer. |
PC World
October 2001
Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: A Better Start for Your Documents Menu Make the Documents menu display the file and folder shortcuts you want to see, use Windows' built-in glossary, optimize Windows' performance... |
Information Today
August 25, 2003 |
News Digest Proposals Sought for Digital Preservation Projects... News from OCLC... AltaVista Offers New Search Toolbar |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Lycos Partners More Closely With FAST Lycos has finally committed to using FAST Search's results to power the "Web Sites" section of its search results.... |
PC Magazine
September 28, 2005
Larry Magid |
RSS: The Web at Your Fingertips Have the latest stories from your favorite Web sites and blogs delivered to your desktop. |
InternetNews
December 21, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Malware Now Hiding As Google Toolbar Buttons It looks like a Toolbar add-on. It installs like a Google app. But it's not a Google Toolbar button - it's malicious code pretending to be legit. |
PC World
January 2005
Scott Spanbauer |
Better Browsing: Add-Ons, Plug-Ins, and Extensions Free Web image tool for Internet Explorer... Managing bookmarks in Mozilla... The best way to remove an add-on... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
July 15, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Google Toolbar Adds Keyword Browsing to Internet Explorer Google has added a keyword based browsing feature to its toolbar, allowing users to type words rather than URLs into the Internet Explorer address bar and automatically see the 'most relevant' site for those terms. |
InternetNews
January 29, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Updates Toolbar Google Toolbar 4.0 broadens its focus and functionality beyond Google Search, adding four new features: custom buttons, Web-based bookmarks and site-specific search. |
Search Engine Watch
August 11, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Capturing Your Personal Web Forget bookmarks: Web content managers like ContentSaver allow you to create your own personal, searchable cache of web pages. |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004
Heather Green |
Your Online Paperboy If you're a news junkie, an online auction lover, or someone who wants to know when the latest songs, DVDs, and books are released, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technology is perfect for you. |
Search Engine Watch
January 30, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Google Releases Upgraded Toolbar Google has enhanced its toolbar for Internet Explorer, introducing several new features that will appeal to regular users of the program. |
