Dotcom said Mega was a different beast to Megaupload, as the new site enables users to control exactly which users can access uploaded files, in contrast to its predecessor, which allowed users to search files, some of which contained copyrighted content allegedly without permission.
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The search engine offers an "MP3 search" function on its home page, allowing users to search for music files on the Web.
Ford currently has about 345, 000 employees, meaning it will potentially have to search through billions of files for anything suspicious.
Windows Phone and Android users also can now easily search through their SkyDrive files as well as control their photo upload and download size.
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The Aimster software lets users search for and swap MP3 files instead of text messages.
That is the way most of today's Web-search sites look for multimedia files--by scanning "metadata" associated with Web content.
Microsoft's knowledge management software can index what's on a hard drive, making it easier to search through the content of files, but won't find it when you need it.
Though it transcribes all of the speech pulled out of videos from its content partners, it only runs other videos through speech-recognition software when there isn't enough metadata with the files for the search engine to figure out what it contains.
Additionally, Microsoft revamped the way built-in search works so that it's now more of a universal search engine, serving up apps, files, settings options and web suggestions.
If you get confused, and you will in the beginning, one swipe from the right side of the Start Screen brings up a search tool to help you track down files or applications.
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The letter, submitted Friday in the Eastern District of Virginia, says that government investigators had finished executing search warrants at centers where Megaupload and MegaVideo files are stored.
Google recognizes the Web's power to publicize and offers Web masters a simple interface to remove their own pages from its index. (Type "remove" into Google to get started.) Other preventive measures include putting sensitive info behind password-protected walls and attaching so-called robot files to Web sites that tell search engines not to index a particular page or site.
Clickfree devices are designed to automatically start, search, organize and backup your computer's digital files.
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Samsung's AllShare Play service allows you to search for and play video, photo, and music files freely across AllShare Play-enabled devices such as PCs, TVs, and mobile devices.
In the case of enterprise Apps this meant building out Gmail to handle lots of people and features, blurring distinctions between home and office by having everything on the Internet (something that was already valuable in corporate search, where a query might first look through company files, then the Internet, to find a range of answers).
Also, this week Google announced Google Desktop, a free downloadable application that combines desktop search with a sidebar that links to Web searches and personal files.
During a preliminary search of these devices, the agents found that many of the computer files were password-protected.
If you're using Windows, the most obvious solution to finding lost files would seem to be by using its built-in search features.
Even with sweeping powers of search and seizure, and of subpoena, it could not keep some incriminating files from the shredder.
The MSN toolbar also comes with a desktop search application which indexes the contents of your local computer so you can find files and messages quickly.
In my case, I've installed a search engine called Google Desktop that lets me quickly scour my hard drive for files, and a product by Xobni Corp. that does something similar for Outlook email, even though neither is approved by my IT department.
In fact, less than a week after MEGA launched, its users whether sloppy, defiant or just plain stupid have done just that and posted links to their own files on an index site (seemingly operated out of France) called MEGA-SEARCH.
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