Home Business: Google and AOL delivering desktop search

Google and AOL delivering desktop search

Written by Loring A. Windblad

Copyright 2004 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos.

Google beat out rivals Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL in launching an application that lets users retrieve Outlook e-mail, text files, Microsoft Office documents, AOL IM logs and a history of Web pages previously viewed via repparttar Web browser. Google calls it a "photographic memory for your computer."

According to search industry pundit Danny Sullivan, Google is making repparttar 100266 desktop part of Google, rather than making search part of repparttar 100267 operating system. And your desktop data never is never sent on to Google.com--your machine does repparttar 100268 heavy lifting on local data.

AOL is close behind with a desktop search tool in repparttar 100269 works that will likely be offered as a feature within a Web browser that AOL is developing. Meanwhile, Apple has already demonstrated a desktop search tool (Spotlight) that will make its appearance in repparttar 100270 next version of Mac OS X. Google on Thursday (14 Oct) 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 repparttar 100271 landscape of Internet search and raise privacy hackles. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which will report earnings for repparttar 100272 first time as a public company next week, has created Google Desktop Search, a thin-client application that lets people retrieve e-mail, Microsoft Office documents, AOL chat logs and a history of Web pages previously viewed, all via a Web browser.

Free? There’s No Such Thing As A “Free Lunch” Anymore

If you spend any time online surfing repparttar Internet or any time reading magazines that deal with business topics, you will more than likely run across countless business opportunity offerings --- repparttar 100265 headlines will scream out at you “FREE this and FREE that and FREE! FREE! FREE!”

Here’s one such ad (copied directly from a published article–there’s many more)….

Free home based business by Mehdi Heidari It is completely free home based business. We make your website free and teach you through our internet marketing course, secrets of internet millionaires, get out of debt system and much much more to promote your business

About repparttar 100266 Author Mehdi Heidari was born in 1979 in Aarhus Denmark and then immigrated to Canada. He is a successful man in his home based business and helps repparttar 100267 other people to make their home based business for free.

His headline is “Free Home Based Business. His first explanation is “…completely free home based business. We make your website free…” OK, so everything’s “FREE”!

Not quite,,,,,,Remember, there’s no free lunches left in repparttar 100268 world anymore. They even shut down repparttar 100269 free meals in Las Vegas.

His hook? The very next statement is “…and teach you through our internet marketing course….” They’re giving away a free home business, yes, and they’re giving away a free internet web site, yes (it’ll cost later, of course). But they pay for this through sales of repparttar 100270 course, a course which you purchase. Not free.

I used to have my web site hosted “Free” on – well, I won’t mention them because I’m not interested in giving out free advertising. But while it was “free” to me, someone was paying repparttar 100271 hosting fee – and in a way I was “paying” for it too.

I “paid for my ‘free’ web site” with pop up ads which came up on my web pages every time you moved to a new page or every 30 seconds, whichever came first. I paid in inconvenience, someone else paid in repparttar 100272 cash it took to host repparttar 100273 web site --- repparttar 100274 persons who were putting repparttar 100275 pop-up ads on. Hey, they had a good deal with me. I had nearly 200 pages up there. That’s a whole lotta pop-up ads to be seen. A whole lotta advertising paying for my little ol’ web site.

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