Yahoo has slight edge in desktop searches

Mike 11 Apr, 2005 at 12:09am ET Article published in Tech

The battleground has moved to individual PCs as leading search companies develop free tools for cataloguing your computer.

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The three I tried are all good at finding files — even ones I thought I had long deleted (whoops!!!). Of the three desktop search programs, the Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. products differ slightly in how they approach your data, while the Google Inc. alternative diverges quite a lot. Which one is right for you comes down to your needs and regard for privacy.

Source: saukvalley.com

Comments

11 Apr 2005 ~ 12:24am Rewired
11 Apr 2005 ~ 1:26am TheBaron so is this just a windows version of grep? mark me confused
11 Apr 2005 ~ 2:41am Camman I dont like these desktop search apps, just seems creepy to have all my emails, documents, and everything on my computer easily indexed and searchable like that... may sound dumb but I know where the things I want are and I dont feel comfortable having some application that indexes every piece of information on my PC.
11 Apr 2005 ~ 8:18am Armo im with camman, how often does it report what kind of files you have on your computer to yahoo?
11 Apr 2005 ~ 4:41pm RWB What's the point in this if you have a perfectly fine search tool built into windows already?
11 Apr 2005 ~ 5:03pm Camman

RWB wrote:

What's the point in this if you have a perfectly fine search tool built into windows already?

Well, unlike the windows search which just does it by filename, these programs search the text of documents and emails and stuff