Comments on: Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:19:02 +0000

Any discussion on spyware content attached/associated with this search tool?

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:12:43 +0000

Yahoo! Desktop Search sounded great. So I’ve installed it and gave it a try. And immediately discovered the lack of Thunderbird Email support.

Sorry, guys. No go. If I want to be stuck with Outlook, I can use Microsoft’s desktop search.

By: JimH

JimH — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:13:15 +0000

I see its an editors choice.
It doesn’t index Thunderbird files.
Makes it useless to me.

By: amit agarwal

amit agarwal — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:29:48 +0000

hey guys,

congrats – pcw just gave you their “editor’s pick” award.

Amit
http://labnol.blogspot.com

By: elevin

elevin — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:21:50 +0000

What I have read so far about YDS is generally positive.

I have been researching personal knowledge management software to provide me some of the things that YDS seems to do.But, can any one here explain to me differences b/t YDS and PKM, if any?

By: Mark Zabala

Mark Zabala — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:12:16 +0000

This would completely win the desktop search category, but it needs to index Thunderbird, Eudora etc…

Also, indexing all tasks and calendars for PIM software would be essential. (iCal, Sunbird, Palm Desktop, etc)

By: Jim brown

Jim brown — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:48:56 +0000

Yahoo Desktop may or may not be great, but I can’t tell because it refuses to download. If I can’t get it, what’s the use?
Apparently it is similar to X1. However X1 does a great job of searchin Eudora Email which apparently Yahoo doesn’t do(nor does MSN search). Why not add Eudora?

By: Hassan Khawaja

Hassan Khawaja — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:32:41 +0000

I have used the X1 search before, and it’s amazing – the speed, ease of search, preview etc are all top notch. Its cost from X1 directly was $99, so pretty awesome to get this technology for free.

By: lcel15

lcel15 — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:57:48 +0000

good yes very good um does it work?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

By: amit agarwal

amit agarwal — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:16:57 +0000

X1 5.0 is out. It supports network drive indexing as well as Netscape Email/ Eudora.

Other than that, I guess rest everything is in YDS.

Amit
http://labnol.blogspot.com