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title: More Desktop Search
date: 2004-08-27T00:45:52Z
modified: 2004-08-27T00:45:52Z
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status: publish
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categories:
  - In the Headlines
timestamp: 2004-08-27T00:45:52Z
tags:
  - In the Headlines
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KDE [joins](http://news.com.com/Linux+group+aims+for+Google-like+search/2100-1016_3-5325137.html?tag=nefd.top) [Apple](http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/), [GNOME](http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/beagle/), [Google](http://www.pandia.com/sw-2004/20-searching.html), and [Microsoft](http://news.com.com/Tiger%2C+Longhorn+search+for+desktop+answers/2100-1016_3-5253421.html?tag=nl) as an organization with ambitions of making the contents of your local hard drive as easy to search as the billions of assets and resources connected to the network across the globe. I really don’t care who gets it right – just someone, make it work.