What Google did for Web searching, Google Desktop -- available in a beta-test form at desktop.google.com for Windows 2000 and XP -- does for file finding. Once installed, it quickly builds a database ...

The real upgrade isn’t search itself, it’s how quickly you can get to it.

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 ...

UK IT bosses are already taking measures to ban employees from downloading Google's Desktop search software on PCs and laptops because of the security risk to corporate data. Analyst Gartner last week ...

Google announced yesterday that its Desktop 2 computer search software was out of beta with new sidebar panels, more customization and bolstered support for enterprise use. The search leader, which ...

Back in the Windows XP days, when the only search functionality was a cartoon dog in the sidebar of Windows Explorer (not a joke), Google released Google Desktop. If you installed the application, you ...

Yesterday Google quietly updated its desktop search and widget product, Google Desktop. Users who download the updated product (available at Google or here at Download.com) will notice two things.

Google Desktop, which extends Google's Web search and indexing functions to local PC hard drives, is susceptible to a cross-site scripting attack (XSS) because of its failure to properly encode output ...

Hard-drive storage capacities are constantly increasing, but for some of us, all that extra space just makes it harder to find the files we’re looking for. So it’s little surprise that Google has ...