GOOGLE DESKTOP

Oct 14, 2004 | Google, search, software

The Google Desktop is a free program that indexes and searches your Outlook folders and the documents on your computer. This will have more of an impact on your world than you suspect. From an icon down by the clock, you can instantly search every incoming and...

NEW SEARCH ENGINE – “CLUSTY”

Oct 6, 2004 | Google, search

Google is one of the world’s best-known brands; it also supplies the technology powering searches done from scores of other web sites. As you might imagine, lots of web sites want to be the next Google. This week’s buzz is about Clusty, which takes search...

GOOGLE ZEITGEIST

Jul 30, 2004 | Google

While I was looking at toolbars, I stumbled on Google Zeitgeist, an interesting place to look around for a few minutes. It’s on the Google Toolbar – click on the Google logo on the left, then click on Google Links / Zeitgeist.

MSN vs. GOOGLE

Jul 30, 2004 | Google, Microsoft

Microsoft is rolling out services to challenge Google. I’m underwhelmed by every single bit of it so far. Yesterday’s presentation, described in this article, summarizes some of the initiatives. MSN is going to sponsor a toolbar – presumably...

GOOGLE E-MAIL

Mar 31, 2004 | Google, mail

Google has begun testing a free webmail service named GMail. Here’s a press release from Google about the new service. Google intends to offer each user essentially unlimited storage of e-mail – 1 gigabyte per user, miles ahead of the paltry 2Mb or 4Mb...