Apple centers Spotlight on desktop search

[Mac Reporter]

SAN FRANCISCO--Not to miss the search beat reverberating throughout the PC market, Apple Computer chief Steve Jobs touted the company's innovations in desktop search coming with its next Mac OS X upgrade.

Specifically, Jobs said Apple has a superior vantage point from which to build in technology for finding files buried on the operating system, compared with third-party application makers launching products for the same purpose. Google, for example, has said it plans to create a desktop search tool for Macs.

"When you build it into the operating system, you can do things that you can't when it's sitting off to the side," Jobs said Tuesday during his keynote speech at the annual Macworld Expo in San Francisco.

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