ClickZ: Copernic Debuts Desktop Search

Copernic Technologies launched its own combination of desktop and internet search applications, called Copernic Desktop Search (CDS). The company claims 30 million users have already downloaded a similar application that provides combined search results from several web search engines. The new application adds to this information elements found on the users' own hard drives.

Several other small technology firms, like Blinkx, have been working to release their own desktop search applications in anticipation of bigger players, such as Google and Microsoft coming out with their own. Microsoft, however, announced that its addition of integrated desktop search to its operating system would be delayed still further, likely putting it in line for a launch well after its already much-delayed Longhorn operating system, now slated to come out in 2006.