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Yahoo Releases Final Desktop Search

By Ed Oswald | Published September 28, 2005, 12:41 PM

Yahoo's Desktop Search software has officially left its beta confines, introducing a new feature called LiveWords that allows users to instantly perform a Web search on any topic, word or phrase found in a local file or document. The program indexes over 300 file types, including e-mails and Yahoo! Messenger chats.

Yahoo! Desktop Search first debuted in January and is based upon technology licensed from X1. Unlike similar search tools from rivals Google and Microsoft, Yahoo's program is not offered as a toolbar add-on for Windows. Instead, Yahoo has chosen to offers its users a full application with tabs for different file types and an automatic preview window.

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puk
Sep 29, 2005 - 3:14 AM edited

I had installed YDS Beta on my machine a couple of weeks back... It has very nice features and made file and mail searching much more easier.. however,after sometime it made my system very sluggish.. so, i decided to get rid of it.. I am much happier now... I am not sure about the final version... I would wait for user comments before giving a second try...

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John_Bedin
Sep 29, 2005 - 9:26 AM

Anything is better than MONOPOLOLISTIC MICROSOFT

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xoineg
Sep 29, 2005 - 9:06 AM

it does the job, but i still like google desktop. I guess yahoo or google are great as long as it is not microsoft.

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losface
Sep 28, 2005 - 1:19 PM edited

Can anyone comment on the performance of Yahoo DS? I installed it to try it out on my new centrino laptop and I thought the application was super slow to show the results. Every action you do it starts heavily reading it's database of indexes, showing preview of things you don't want, and sometimes even slows the pc down to a halt.

I'm wondering if it's worth it to give Yahoo DS another shot instead of just installing Google DS?!

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digitalking
Sep 28, 2005 - 3:03 PM

Yahoo's desktop search seems okay, but as I posted on this site before, Copernic Desktop search or Copernic Agent, two seperate programs, work smoothly for me, and have a nice interface. Copernic was around with their desktop search, before all of these large corporations, decided it was a good idea.

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