Google's desktop app, called Google Desktop or Google Desktop Search, was introduced for Windows back in 2004. Three years later, the company released the app for Linux and Mac OS X. The Mountain View ...

Google Desktop, which extends Google's Web search and indexing functions to local PC hard drives, is susceptible to a cross-site scripting attack (XSS) because of its failure to properly encode output ...

Google's search engine faces the daunting task of indexing over 8 billion Web pages and sharing the results with practically every Internet user. Google Desktop Search has a much easier job: It ...

Google Desktop is a downloadable application that indexes items on your computer such as e-mail conversations, Microsoft Office documents, Web history, PDFs, music, images and video. The app then ...

Last week, we alerted readers to potential security problems that might arise from blending SSL VPNs with Google Desktop Search. Since Google’s search tool caches and indexes everything that goes on a ...