Desktop Search Goes Live!
- Posted September 27th, 2005 at 7:02 pm by Yahoo! Search
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A little over a month ago, our resident search guru, href="http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000079.html">Reiner Kraft, blogged about contextual search with href="http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000177.html">Toolbar, Messenger and Y!Q. The idea of “searching without leaving the page you’re on” got us thinking; why not offer a simple and convenient way to search on the Web for more information about any topic, word or phrase in your desktop files and documents? As a result, we decided to make contextual web search part of
title="http://desktop.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Desktop Search The next time you’re using YDS to search for e-mails, IM archives, contacts or documents, simply highlight some text within the preview pane and click the new “LiveWords” button start your search. Selecting a word or phrase that you’d like to know more about will, as Reiner puts it, “automagically” present you with the most relevant results. Thanks to your help and feedback, the latest version of Yahoo! Desktop Search is also no longer in Beta. We’ve steadily been working on improving the core file, e-mail and document search capabilities and along the way we even managed to sneak in a new battery saver mode which defaults to index only when your PC is plugged in ( href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/004895.html">Jeremy, we’re still listening). Another round of thanks to all of our Beta testers and please keep that feedback coming…
Albert Lee Sr. Product Manager Yahoo! Search
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Once again i’d feedback a search in my Yahoo network (briefcase, photo, flickR, Y! Mail! calendar, notepad ….)
Is there a change log available? As there is no new version of the expansion pack I’m curious, when the OpenOffice indexing bug will be solved. Second question: Is the YDS forum read by developers? I posted this problem there long times ago. (YDS is the best desktop search available, I strongly believe.)
I’m very happy to hear that YDS is out of BETA, and is an official product. For a while there, I was beginning to wonder if it had been abandoned.
Hopefully this release incorporates a number of fixes that have plagued the beta versions. New features are nice, but actually working as it’s supposed to is paramount.
Off to download now…
Nice feature but its something I put out on my blog over a year ago and I’m no one’s resident search guru. See http://www.unsogno.net/177/2004/08/need-to-know-more-about-something-you.html . But I’m lazy so it only works in IE.
Yahoo Desktop Search is a good initiative to integrate the windows desktop but so much more can be done.
Perhaps creating something like a desktop sidebar will be a good start
http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
And making users more aware of new Konfabulator widgets update, will be cool too
Search Tools revisted
My take on the current scene of Desktop Search
I am not very sure. If YDS is free and its entirely from X1 and now even X1 is free – why should I use YahooDS? Moreover X1 has been always a very professional software and has been for quite a long time even before Yahoo thought of DS. It has more features than YDS too. I would rather use X1.
Wait for some more time and we can find a open source replacement for this too.