November 21, 2004

Google offers developer keys

by brian_turner

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The Google Desktop Search came out in a blaze of glory - and now it seems that a number of other search engines are trying to catch up with their own Desktop search tools.

However, Google has struck a major strike against the competition, by allowing developers to code their own plug-ins and applications to run with the software: the Google Deskbar Plug-in Development Kit

By empowering webmasters for web-development of the desktop search software, Google has certainly reached out in a market where other search engines would be forced to respond, or keep clear ownership of their own intellectual property.

However, with security issues, from spyware, phishing, and browser hijacks, all being used in accelated numbers against surfers, it’ll be interesting to see how well Google can maintain it’s clean image, when the power of the desktop search could easily be redirected for more underground aims and purposes.

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