The application is "a personal web assistant that learns about your habits and interests to identify and present web pages, news stories, and photos that it thinks you will be interested in," Marissa Mayer, director of product management for consumer products, said in a news release.
While the program is currently available only in English, the company said additional language support will "follow shortly." The application is downloadable from
http://desktop.google.com.
Copyright 2005 by United Press International
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