Yahoo in search of bypassing Google
Yahoo in search of bypassing Google
Dec 13, 2004: Yahoo is planning to release a new search tool in January which will be able to find emails and many other types of files stored inside computer hard drives in an attempt to offer a better search service than Google and Microsoft.
Yahoo Desktop Search will use licensed technology from X1 Technologies, which is usually targeted at business professionals with desktop search software, to make it just as easy to find information offline as it is to find it online.This announcement follows the release of Google's beta version of its hard drive search engine in October, which challenged Yahoo and Microsoft.However, Microsoft MSN and Ask Jeeves Inc. aim to unveil similar services by the end of the year too.Yahoo's search tool service on the desktop is also expected to focus on each subscriber's personal information stored on the Yahoo portal, such as emails, photos and the calendar.In addition, it will be able to return results from Yahoo's news, entertainment and music offerings as well on the Web in general.Users will have the ability to search just for email from one individual person and also launch a preview window so they won't have to call up each search result and see what is inside of it.Yahoo claims that its new product has the ability to search through 225 different data types, including many formats that the Google desktop can't search for.Related Article: