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Google smartens up for business
Speedy desktop search will interrogate your hard drive...

By Reuters

Published: Wednesday 18 May 2005

Google has released a desktop search product for businesses with the aim of helping workers find information more quickly - on the web, in their computer hard drives and email inboxes, as well as on corporate intranets.

Dave Girouard, general manager of Google Enterprise, said the business edition of desktop search is based on Google's consumer product but includes features particularly for business users.

Among other things, the free downloadable software is integrated with Google's Search Appliance and Mini - which search company intranets - and Lotus Notes, the ubiquitous business email system from IBM.

Additionally, Girouard said, all of the data that is indexed and stored on its enterprise desktop search product is encrypted for security reasons.

Google's Enterprise Appliance customers include Boeing and Morgan Stanley, Girouard said.

Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker and increasingly a Google rival, launched the final version of its desktop search tool this week and said it would also offer it to enterprises for use on corporate computers.