The next search frontier: Your PC

Anonymous Patron writes Eric Hellweg, CNN/Money contributing columnist says later this year, you’ll see interest shift to the emerging market for desktop search.

What’s precipitating the shift? The rumored revamp of Microsoft’s Web search offerings and entry into the desktop search market.

These two moves strike fear into the leading Web players, which see Microsoft leveraging its ownership of the desktop to make other search products obsolete. Why use separate tools to search the Web and the desktop, goes the argument, if the desktop tool can search both and offer highly relevant results?

How can we tie this into what we offer in libraries?”