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August 22, 2005
Google rediscovers that paperclip
According to the BBC News, Google and is updating their desktop search software:
The revamped software will suggest web links, personal documents and images that might be relevant to whatever someone is doing with their computer.The tool also automatically subscribes to feeds from weblogs and news sites that a user visits.
Umm, didn't Microsoft already do that sort of stuff with the paperclip in their Office suite? ("It looks like you're writing a letter.") Didn't virtually everyone who'd ever used it for more than a demo already agree that was a bad idea? Maybe they've been working too hard selling shares and their engineers are getting outflanked by their marketing dudes and management.
Posted by Mark at August 22, 2005 09:58 PM