Yahoo Desktop Search Beta Download is released

So, is it going to do what the old Magellen program was supposed to do?

I'm not familiar with that software but consider desktop search a search engine for your files (e.g. emails etc).

Sounds useful. That was Magellans claim, but I haven't seen it touted for quite a while. I'll keep an eye on progress. Thanks.

well I might take a peek I recently put on Picasa by google, maybe Y can replace that?

roger,

Give it a try. I have tried them all without any issues and because of how fast the Yahoo app indexes it's the most painless.

Desktop search is the big deal these days and will be much more so in the future and you will start wondering how you lived without it.

Husker,

Picassa is not the same type of software, so your question is like asking if a toaster can replace your fridge.

My answer is that it really depends on what the hell you plan to do with the toaster.

downloading!!!!!

Ah. Now we're getting somewhere. Setting updates to see if it works for dlowan.

It works - lol!!!!!

PS: What is wrong with this picture?

Answer: Roger waiting for feed-back from self-proclaimed - and proud - computer Luddite.

I've used Google Desktop Search (not a big fan) and MSN Desktop search (better)... On to try out Yahoo's...

Google Desktop sounds very interesting, but I have not downloaded it. I had read somewhere, that it may open some holes for hackers to exploit. Anybody know any more about this?

http://seclab.cs.rice.edu/

That page you linked to explains the situation pretty well, Phoenix. It includes this...


I've been using Yahoo's Desktop Search today....oh my God it's fantastic....blows MSN Desktop & Google Desktop searches out of the water, IMO. I always hated Google's forcing you to use a browser to search & their tiny results previews, & MSN doesn't rank things very well & is a bit slow (compared to the others, anyway). But Yahoo Desktop Search is incredibly powerful, lightning fast, has a great interface, & offers much more control than the others. B-e-a-utiful. One thing I noticed right away is that Outlook doesn't have to be open for it to index your email, which is a nice change from the others.

Of course, Yahoo did start out with an already complete, popular & award-winning application (X1, which I've been interested in for about a year now but never tried because it was a commercial product), while Google & MSN, as far as I know anyway, mostly wrote theirs from the ground up.

I'm not familar with other similar products like Copernic and Ask Jeeves Desktop Search beta...

Cool. It works for Deb, it'll work for me. Have to try it at home for a few days before downloading to the box at work.

Lol - ah, a canary down the mine thing - if there's a dumb mistake waiting to be made.....

well. . . .

The one thing I have disliked about it so far is that if you set it to run on startup it slows down startup considerably (on three different boxes I tested on).

Thing is, it's not necessary to start it on windows start up. You need it in the system tray to index etc but don't need the app to load in a window on startup.