Technically Speaking

Yahoo in partnership with X1 Technologies, will be entering the Desktop Search arena, trying to go head-to-head with Google. The Yahoo desktop search tool will search the contents of the user’s personal hard drive, including e-mail, Word documents, PDF files, music and photos. Yahoo plans to continue to build upon the tool by introducing other features in future iterations; such as navigation for Yahoo’s instant messenger archives, address book and free e-mail service. One thing that will make Yahoo stand out over Google is that Yahoo its product can sift through more than 225 different data types, including many formats that Google’s desktop search can’t index yet. January of 2005 will be the earliest we can check the tool out.

Desktop search, which helps excavate information buried on computer hard drives, is seen as the next frontier in the booming search sector that has generated billions in revenues from ads generated by Web search queries.

Yahoo’s product will use licensed technology from Pasadena, California-based X1 Technologies Inc. to help users search e-mail and a variety of files — from photos and music to PDF-format documents — on their hard drives.

Those search capabilities also will be integrated with Yahoo’s own Web search technology, said Jeff Weiner, senior vice president of Yahoo’s search and marketplace business.

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Sources Yahoo and CNet

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