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July 12, 2005

Hey Jeremy, this one’s for you (wink, nod)!

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Check out our new update to Yahoo!
Desktop Search.

We’re excited to introduce three new improvements:

  1. Support for Mozilla Thunderbird email client: Indexes all email and
    attachments in Thunderbird. (Read what Jeremy thinks of this.)
  2. Simplified UI and tabs: Your feedback was very helpful. Please keep
    your comments coming either on href="http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=l&board=&tid=next1&sid=394500
    297&mid=10000000">our
    message board or with href="http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/ysearch/cgi_desktopsearch">our
    feedback form
  3. Reduced download size: Most of you just need to search emails, MS
    Office docs, PDFs and other common filetypes. So we’ve made the
    initial download much faster by splitting out support for the large
    number of less common filetypes into a separate expansion pack. You
    can download the free
    expansion pack     at any time, or YDS will let you know when you’ve
    encountered a filetype that requires it.
    (NOTE: if you had version 1.0
    or 1.1 of YDS, you will still need to install the expansion pack even
    though the older versions included all the filetype support. Sorry for
    the inconvenience this time, but we’ll find a way to make this
    unnecessary for future upgrades.)

And thanks again to all our Beta testers!

Duke Fan

Sr Product Manager, Search Client Team

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Comments

  1. Cool, downloading it right now :) Thanks for the info

    Posted by: Guillaume | July 12th, 2005 3:07 pm

  2. Good stuff. It’s encouragin to know this product is still under active development.

    Now how about indexing the cache from Firefox? This is the one thing I’m waiting for before i switch to YDS

    Posted by: Hashim | July 12th, 2005 7:43 pm

  3. So when can we expect Yahoo services integration like Yahoo Mail features + Yahoo Photos/briefcase…?
    And when will it be given a web interface like GDS?

    Posted by: Guillaume | July 13th, 2005 4:42 am

  4. Any ideas when the Yahoo! Desktop Search will be working on FreeBSD?

    Posted by: Jacques Marneweck | July 13th, 2005 7:00 am

  5. What do you estimate the number of FreeBSD desktops to be?

    Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny | July 15th, 2005 5:00 pm

  6. What about Eudora? I can’t think of a technical obstacle. Old and cranky program, but I have 10 years and 2+ GIG of mail archives in it, and don’t want to leave.

    Posted by: Gedog | July 16th, 2005 11:03 am

  7. Gedog:

    Have you tried it? Eudora, last I checked, also use mbox files, so it might Just Work.

    Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny | July 16th, 2005 11:18 am

  8. I’ll give it a try and report back. X1 did support it, so maybe ….

    Posted by: Geodog | July 17th, 2005 1:44 am

  9. Jeremy, down here in South Africa, most of my friend s including myself use FreeBSD for our desktop Operating System of choice. It can’t be too difficult to get a version working under FreeBSD, I hear that you have various FreeBSD experts on your staff seeing that you guys run FreeBSD on your servers there ;)

    Has Yahoo! ever considered open sourcing the Yahoo! Desktop Search software, so that others can port it to their favourite operating systems?

    Posted by: Jacques Marneweck | July 20th, 2005 12:16 am

  10. Publisher indexing, *please*. Standard Windows find can’t search fulltext in these, so an external indexer is the only hope… It seems that nothing currently indexes these. Sure, the files are nasty vomits of data, but then it’s the job of search tools to de-vomitify them, now, isn’t it :)

    Posted by: Joe Lorem | August 23rd, 2005 1:57 am

  11. Does anyone know where message log is stored? I can’t get my archives to show up there is always an error when indexing??

    Posted by: Cosma | March 15th, 2006 9:47 am