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 (software) (redirect from Everything search)
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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File Explorer (redirect from Search companion)
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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Unity (user interface) (redirect from Unity (desktop environment))
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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Copernic (redirect from Copernic Desktop Search)
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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Xfce (redirect from Cholesterol Free Desktop Environment)
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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TinySPARQL (redirect from Tracker (desktop search software))
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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List of Google products (redirect from Google University Search)
view building energy consumption. Discontinued on September 16. Desktop – desktop 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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SUSE Linux Enterprise (redirect from SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop)
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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Spotlight (Apple) (redirect from Spotlight search)
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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