Google Launches New Desktop Search Application

The search engine giant Google (www.google.com) announced recently Google Desktop Search for Enterprise. The downloadable application enables companies to provide employees with the ability to search for information on their computers.

Google Desktop Search for Enterprise adds new enterprise-level security, configuration and deployment controls. Additionally it allows users to search the full text of IBM Lotus Notes messages.

"Finding information quickly in business is more than a convenience - it's a necessity," said Dave Girouard, general manager of Google's enterprise business.

"E-mail has evolved beyond messaging into a tool where people manage their activities and store critical business information," said Ken Bisconti, vice president of Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software, IBM.

Additionally Google Desktop Search is the first desktop search tool to access the full text of a user's web page history and the only one to search AOL instant messages, says the company.

The new Google Desktop Search also offers full integration with the Google Search Appliance and Google Mini.

Google announced this week that the search engine is undertaking an experiment called Google Sitemaps. The beta "ecosystem" will help webmasters with: keeping Google informed about all of your new web pages or updates, and increasing the coverage of your web pages in the Google index, says the Google Webblog.

Google is planning to use the URL information webmasters supply to further improve the coverage of the search engine index.