Yahoo to begin testing desktop search
Yahoo says it will begin testing a free desktop search service in early January, following rivals hoping to extend the reach of wildly profitable search-related advertising.
Yahoo’s product will use licensed technology from Pasadena, California-based X1 Technologies 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.
(source: Reuters)
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