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    Desktop search tools search within a user's own computer files as opposed to searching the Internet. These tools are designed to find information on the...
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  • Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market...
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  • Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It...
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  • Windows Search (formerly MSN Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and the Windows Search Engine) is a content index and desktop search platform by...
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  • simplifies use of desktop content to navigate, search, and use related information stored on the desktop computer. The data in desktop organizer tools is...
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    Everything is a freeware desktop search utility for Windows that can rapidly find files and folders by name. While the binaries are licensed under a permissive...
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    Microsoft Bing (redirect from Bing Desktop)
    September 11, 2006 replacing MSN Search. The new search engine used search tabs that include Web, news, images, music, desktop, local, and Microsoft Encarta...
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  • percent of all desktop search queries in the United States. During the same period of time, Oath (the then-owner of the Yahoo brand) had a search market share...
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  • style referred to as Windows Aero; a content index and desktop search platform called Windows Search; new peer-to-peer technologies to simplify sharing files...
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    Before 2024, Google also provided desktop users links to cached versions of their search results, formed by the search engine's latest indexing of the website...
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  • Listary (category Desktop search engines)
    Listary is a desktop search utility for Microsoft Windows that can search for files on a computer. It works with items in File Explorer, Task Manager,...
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  • previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application and default desktop environment that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating...
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  • 28%. For desktop computers and laptops, Microsoft Windows has 71%, followed by Apple's macOS at 16%, unknown operating systems at 8%, desktop Linux at...
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    controls Dash is a desktop search utility with preview ability. It enables searching for applications and files. Dash supports search plug-ins, known as...
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    Operating System Main Interface Components, is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. COSMIC was...
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  • Active Desktop was a feature of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0's optional Windows Desktop Update that allowed users to add HTML content to the desktop, along...
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  • Quick Search Box (GQSB) is an application launcher and desktop search tool developed by Google for Mac OS X computers. It allows users to search files...
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    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, producer of Copernic Desktop Search and Copernic Server Search, desktop search software for home and business, running on Microsoft...
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    as four individual letters, /ɛks ɛf siː iː/) is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Xfce aims...
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  • years. Since the introduction of Storage, desktop search came to prominence, and now GNOME desktop search projects (Beagle, also defunct, as well as...
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    search framework for Linux and other Unix-like systems. It is written in the C programming language. TinySPARQL has been adopted by the GNOME desktop...
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    Lookeen (category Desktop search engines)
    enterprise search and desktop search product released in 2008 by Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH. Lookeen was developed in 2007 as an email search tool replacement...
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  • view building energy consumption. Discontinued on September 16. Desktopdesktop search application that indexed emails, documents, music, photos, chats...
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  • technologies. In desktop search, many solutions incorporate meta tags to provide a way for authors to further customize how the search engine will index...
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    Recoll (category Desktop search engines)
    Recoll is a desktop search tool that provides full-text search in a GUI with a few mandatory external dependencies. It runs on many Unix-like operating...
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  • suffixed with Server (SLES) for servers and mainframes, and Desktop (SLED) for workstations and desktop computers. Its major versions are released at an interval...
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    Ask.com (redirect from Ask Search)
    emphasized use of the search engine, which had its own algorithm. In late 2010, with insurmountable competition from more popular search engines like Google...
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    system-wide desktop search feature of Apple's macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS operating systems. Spotlight is a selection-based search system, which...
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  • species of palms Copernic Desktop Search, a desktop search engine Copernic, the company that produces Copernic Desktop Search This disambiguation page...
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  • ISYS:desktop is an enterprise-class desktop search tool designed to find information on individual PCs as well as across corporate networks, databases...
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