Google Desktop allows users to search e-mail in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, chat threads in AOL Instant Messenger, as well as Web pages viewed in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It also helps users search plain text, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, among other things.

Microsoft, Yahoo and Google are all going head-to-head in the Web search market to tap into the advertising revenue generated by ads displayed alongside search results.

By: DocMemory
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