Comments on: New Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta Goes Beyond the Desktop

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:05:22 +0000

YDS is a good product, and i use it at work, because i’m curious about its features. however, at home, i can’t give up Google Desktop Search.

having the desktop search integrated with Google.com is the one feature that makes Google Desktop Search more convenient and useful than all the rest.

By: audeince-response-guy

audeince-response-guy — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:01:54 +0000

What I like best is that results show me *where* the document is.

I’ve used Outlook’s search and Google desktop search for finding mail. While both find what I want, neither tells me which mail folder (I have lots) the message is in.

Quite often, there are many related messages that I need to find as well, and they would have been stored in the same folder. Knowing where it is, allows me to go directly to the folder.

By: Jason Clarke

Jason Clarke — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:41:50 +0000

Sorry for the repeated comments; user error.

By: Jason Clarke

Jason Clarke — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:03:04 +0000

The Yahoo Desktop Search message board is terrible; there’s no easy way to search whether other users are experiencing the same issues you are. Plus, there doesn’t appear to be a place to find out the latest release notes of newer versions of the YDS beta. In fact, I didn’t know any newer versions had been made until I read this blog post! Maybe I was looking in the wrong places, but there’s no links to useful information from within YDS. I’ve switched back to Copernic until these issues are sorted out.

By: Qaelith_2112

Qaelith_2112 — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:43:12 +0000

I tend to prefer MANY aspects of Yahoo Desktop Search over any other, but there is ONE *KEY* feature that is *MISSING* that MUST be implemented before I will consider switching from Copernic: Indexing *ON THE FLY*. I cannot wait for a scheduled indexing session to happen before my new/changed files are available in the search pool. I do realize this takes a small hit on resources, but it’s worthwhile. For those who do not want this, an option to turn it on or off would be a solution. Indexing of network drives would be great as well, but that isn’t a dealbreaker for me as on-the-fly indexing is. Add that, and I’m switching immediately. Read the commentaries on BetaNews and other sites, and you’ll find that this is a major reason why a significant number of people prefer Copernic at the moment.

By: Ray Husband

Ray Husband — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:32:55 +0000

Good improvement. However I still use Copernic Desktop Search as it’s UI is much better and has more functions. It’s also much lighter on my CPU.

By: Dan Housman

Dan Housman — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:58:25 +0000

I agree with the idea that the desktop search tools need to include information from other sources. I like this capability and this is a big plus for Yahoo! vs. other search providers (Microsoft/Google) who still haven’t managed to integrate their services with the desktop search. Nice work.

I hope Yahoo! looks a step beyond the Yahoo! stack to the next level of obtaining information for the search client from services outside of Yahoo! by working with 3rd party developers to build plug-ins like Google is doing and doesn’t get tripped-up by being in a partnership with X1 that closes the architecture.

Another big thing would be to look at search on the desktop as a service for other applications so people can do work. We have an application for desktop organizing in virtual folders(http://www.viapoint.com) and ended-up partnering for our latest release with Google Desktop Search because we couldn’t figure out how to work with Yahoo! as an ISV connecting into desktop search.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:55:23 +0000

The Y!Address book search is pretty cool.I like the fact it is being indexed by the desktop search.
I hope to see other Y! online services like the photos, briefcase Y! mail integrated as well