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Suggested new features include file indexing on par with Unix's Beagle, Google Desktop and Mac OS X's Spotlight, greater integration of scalable vector graphics into the desktop, proper support for multiple users, and additional kits.
Prior to his Chrome work, Mike was the Technical Lead for Google Desktop for Mac.
* Aura Desktop Environment, the theme used by Google Chrome OS.
Google Desktop was desktop search software made by Google for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.
In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Desktop: " In the last few years, there ’ s been a huge shift from local to cloud-based storage and computing, as well as the integration of search and gadget functionality into most modern operating systems.
As this was the goal of Google Desktop, the product will be discontinued ".
As of January 2008, Google Desktop featured the following functionality:
After initially installing Google Desktop, the software completes an indexing of all the files in the computer.
After performing searches, results can also be returned in a web browser on the Google Desktop Home Page much like the results for Google Web searches.
Google Desktop can index several different types of data, including email, web browsing history from Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, office documents in the OpenDocument and Microsoft Office formats, instant messenger transcripts from AOL, Google, MSN, Skype, Tencent QQ, and several multimedia file types.
Google Desktop allows the user to control which types of data are indexed by the program.
Google Desktop only indexes 100, 000 files per drive during the initial indexing period.
If users have more than 100, 000 files in a particular drive, Google Desktop won't index all of them during this initial period.
However, Google Desktop adds files to the index during real-time indexing when users move or open them.
A prominent feature of Google Desktop is the Sidebar, which holds several common Gadgets and resides off to one side of the desktop.
The Sidebar is available with the Microsoft Windows and Linux versions of Google Desktop.
Like the Windows Taskbar, the Google Desktop sidebar can be set to Auto-Hide mode, where it will only appear once the user moves the mouse cursor towards the side where it resides.
When searching in the sidebar, deskbar or floating deskbar, Google Desktop displays a " Quick Find " window.
Google Desktop includes plugins that allow indexing and searching the contents of local Microsoft Outlook, IBM Lotus Notes, and Mozilla Thunderbird email databases, outside of the client applications ' built-in search functions.

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At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google.
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; 1865 ; 4th ed., 1866, digitized by Google and available for e-readers ), Haben wir den echten Schrifttext der Evangelisten und Apostel?
The Internet, facilitated by the development of search engines, has grown into a common source of information for many people, and provides easy access to reliable original sources and expert opinions, thanks in part to initiatives such as Google Books, MIT's release of its educational materials and the open PubMed Central library of the National Library of Medicine.
He currently ( 2008 ) lives in Trondheim, Norway, and works for Google.
Firefox utilizes HTTPS for Google searches as of version 14, to " shield our users from network infrastructure that may be gathering data about the users or modifying / censoring their search results ".
A beta version of this plugin is also available for Google Chrome and Chromium.
Support for SNI is available since Firefox 2, Opera 8, Safari 2. 1, Google Chrome 6, and Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista.
* Adium: supports ICQ, Yahoo !, AIM, MSN, Google Talk, XMPP, and others, for Mac OS X ;
* Kopete: supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, XMPP, Google Talk, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger and others, for Unix-like ;
* Miranda IM: supports ICQ, Yahoo !, AIM, MSN, IRC, Google Talk, XMPP, Gadu-Gadu, BNet and others, for Windows ;
This did not hold Oracle, however, from filing a lawsuit against Google shortly after that for using Java inside the Android SDK ( see Google section below ).
Some specialised search engines such as Google Scholar offer a way to facilitate searching for academic resources such as journal articles and research papers.
Digitisation of books, particularly those that are out-of-print, in projects such as Google Books provides resources for library and other online users.
Due to their holdings of valuable material, some libraries are important partners for search engines such as Google in realising the potential of such projects and have received reciprocal benefits in cases where they have negotiated effectively.
Coupland revisited many of the ideas in Microserfs in his 2006 novel JPod, which has been labeled " Microserfs for the Google generation ".
MySQL is also used in many high-profile, large-scale World Wide Web products, including Wikipedia, Google ( though not for searches ), Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Nokia. com, and YouTube.
Google does not use HTML keyword or meta tag elements for indexing.
Google does, however, use meta tag elements for displaying site links.
The closest analogy with the modern Web browser would be to create a list of bookmarks to articles relevant to a topic, and then to have some mechanism for automatically scrolling through the articles ( for example, use Google to search for a keyword, obtain a list of matches, repeatedly use the " open in new tab " feature of the Web browser, and then visit each tab sequentially ).

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