“Google Inc. plans to release a version of its desktop search tool for computers running on the Mac operating system from Apple Computer Inc., Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Friday,” Reuters reports. “Schmidt did not set a timetable for a Mac version of Google Desktop, saying it had to be rebuilt from the ground up because of the fundamental differences between the Mac OS and Windows. ‘We intend to do it,’ Schmidt said at a University of California-Los Angeles conference commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Internet.”

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Can you say redundant and late? By the time Google gets a Mac OS X version ready, Mac users will already have Mac OS X “Tiger” with one of its premiere features: “Spotlight” search technology. We think Apple will do a far better job with a Mac search tool than Google. Apple did create the OS after all. Find out more about “Spotlight,” due with “Tiger” in the first half of 2005 here.