Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Yahoo launch desktop search

Internet Daily

Frank Barnako reports that Yahoo ask on their search blog "'What makes this one special?' and answer: 'Speed. YDS (Yahoo Desktop Search) is really fast,' the company said."

"It's also more comprehensive than alternatives, wrote Bradley Horowitz and Jeremy Zawodny on the Yahoo Weblog. It indexes more than 200 file types, including Microsoft Outlook e-mail, Word files, Adobe PDF documents, and audio and video. Files can be opened or played within the search tool."

Yahoo! Search blog download YAhoo desktop search and post feedback here or on Yahoos message board setup specially for YDS discussion."

Both download and message board pages are down at time of writing.

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