AOL is testing their own desktop search software program which will come with future versions of the America Online web browser.
“The spokeswoman declined to provide more details about the desktop searching features of the AOL browser, which is based on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Generally, desktop search applications index the content of PC hard drives to make them searchable. Traditionally such tools have done a poor job, which is why a variety of companies, seeing an opportunity, are entering the space to try to bring the advances attained in recent years in Internet search to the desktop.”
This doesn’t surprise us since Google just announced their own desktop search application last week. We have also heard rumors that the folks at Yahoo! and Microsoft’s MSN are working on their own versions.
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