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The Google Puffin desktop
There is a rumor going about Google planning to attack Microsoft on its home turf: desktop software. The "Puffin" software will apparently search the web as well as look for files on your own computer.
According to the New York Times Google will shortly launch a file and text software search tool for locating information stored on personal computers.
Some say it is an act of desperation, others that it is a stroke of genius. The truth lays somewhere in between.
Google's tremendous success in searching came as a surprise to Microsoft, which did not understand the potential searching had for catching loyal users and ad revenue. To this day Microsoft has no search engine of their own. Their MSN portal is powered by one of their competitors: Yahoo!
Bill Gates has realized his mistake, however, and his programmers....
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