Posted Oct 13, 2004
AOL Develops Desktop Search
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"According to sources familiar with testing, America Online is developing its own desktop search technology that will initially be added to the AOL Browser beta as early as the end of this week.
AOL's entry into the space pits it directly against rival Microsoft, which has designs for a desktop search engine of its own.
AOL Desktop Search is one of many value added features shoring up America Online's upcoming alternative Web browser, currently code-named AOL Browser. AOL Browser is a standalone application based upon Internet Explorer and is independent from AOL's client software.
Although AOL Browser shares the same underlying engine as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, many features more commonly found in AOL's Netscape brand can be found in the release. These additions include tabbed browsing, a pop up blocker, and toolbar buttons that produce thumbnails of Web pages when users hover over them.
AOL Browser is also the lynchpin of an emerging strategy to increase the utility of AOL.com, which has coincidentally undergone a recent makeover.
AOL Desktop Search is an integrated feature that will allow users to search for a plethora of files including: documents in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as PDF, HTML, WordPerfect, rich text and plain text files. In addition, users can scour through Web pages they have previously seen in Internet Explorer, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) chat logs, locally stored newsgroups and Web logs, as well as digital media and pictures."
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