Yahoo is doing desktop search soon.

Yahoo is working on a desktop search tool like Google's. The competition in areas like this are always good but will anyone get the point of the privacy issues? I hope that Yahoo takes a closer look at the privacy concerns before they develop another "me too" product.

In this article from Reuters UK, this is what is said about Yahoo desktop search.

"Yahoo is working on it. In short course, we'll have a desktop solution as well," Semel said at an investment conference in Scottsdale, Arizona which was broadcast over the Internet. He did not say specifically when Yahoo's desktop search program would be released.

I'm starting to think that no one really had much in place at Yahoo regarding desktop search. Maybe they don't think it's that important. I don't know about you, but I won't install any desktop search. Have you heard of anyone installing it? No one in my circle of friends or business associates has done this. Is this a viable product offering or is this something that search engines are going to do just because everyone else is? Instead of wasting money developing something people are skeptical about, why not make search engine relevance even better? There is always room for improvement in the search engine indexes. There is so much search spam, why not work on cleaning out the trash in Yahoo or Google. That would be more valuable to the average searcher rather than trying to find that lost recipe on their computer.

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