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Google and Dell have agreed to a first in a series of deals to preinstall Web and desktop search software on the PC maker's computers, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday. Under the deal, millions of Dell PCs will be loaded with the Google toolbar for Web and PC search, along with a co-branded home page, before they're shipped to consumers.
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Q-go is a fast-growing Independent Software Vendor (ISV) specialising in Natural Language Search (NLS) technology. It wanted to offer its customers an alternative solution to search engines such as Google. Tags: Microsoft Corp., Language, Q-go, Search, Microsoft Office, Tools & Techniques, Office Suites, Software, Management Case studies 2007-12-01
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ServersCheck, the Leuven supplier of monitoring software and hardware for ICT-infrastructure, confirms the article in the Belgian newspaper De Standaard and will begin its case against Google Benelux at the commercial court in Leuven today. The cause is the Google Toolbar, a part of the search toolbars in Internet Explorer and Firefox, in which Google suggests illegal or cracked versions of the ServersCheck-software to surfers for the keyword "ServersCheck". ServersCheck distributes the majority of its products via the Internet.
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Google has begun offering Web-based word processing, spreadsheets and presentation software as an alternative to Microsoft's lucrative desktop programs. Schmidt is a computer scientist who worked as a researcher at Bell Laboratories and at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, in California, before moving into management.
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The exploitation of Google's in-depth searching capabilities underscores how software with no malicious motive can be used to help online intruders. The recent MyDoom-O virus hammered Google and other search engines with searches from infected PCs for additional e-mail addresses to which the program could send itself. Security researchers have ... theorised that Google and other search engines could be used as a carrier of malicious code.
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Microsoft executives said Thursday that they intended to respond to the growing threat to its software posed by rivals like Google that offer Web-based versions of its applications. via New York Times
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