Desktop search for Yahoo in January

Like almost everyone else these days, Yahoo is going to have a desktop search tool. Yahoo is doing everything it can to keep up to Google in the search engine race. It should be interesting if there is any reason to use the Yahoo desktop search compared to Google's version. It would be great if Yahoo came out with something that is more private. They license the technology, from an article in the Daily Times of Pakistan:

The product, licensed from a pioneering startup named X1 Technologies, seeks to cure a common computer-induced headache by making it as quick and easy to find digital information offline as it has become online. With just 20 employees, X1 has established itself as a trailblazer in desktop search since starting three years ago. The private Pasadena-based company has been charging $74.95 for its search software and plans to continue to license its products to businesses even as Yahoo distributes a version for free.

So even this company, X1 is offering a licensed version that they are distributing too. What makes me wonder about desktop search is it really something everyone wants? Before all these alternatives came out, did you ever hear anyone clamoring for this type of tool? I'll guess you didn't. The reason why is I think that search engines have overestimated the market for this. It still floors me that with some of the security issues, people will use the product.

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