More than two years after Google launched its Google Desktop Search for Windows application, limited initial support for the Linux platform is available. Of the top three major search engines which offer desktop search software (Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft), Google is the first to try to win the hearts and minds of both Macintosh and Linux users. Yahoo and Microsoft solutions are both limited to Windows.
For Google, search is strategically important, wherever it happens.
Why are the search engines offering free desktop search software?
Desktop search is strategically important to search engines. Personal computer users searching for information with a desktop search application are just one click away from seamlessly integrated web search.
Controlling desktop search means controlling traffic to a web search engine – a very lucrative business as demonstrated by Google’s economic results.
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