Yahoo! wants a slice of Desktop Search Market
November 3rd, 2004 Leave a comment Visited 33 times, 2 so far today
Yahoo! wants a slice of Desktop Search Market
It is almost weird to see these big corporations trying to enter a field so soon one after the other that was ruled by small companies just few weeks ago. Google surprised the tech community with their release of the Desktop Search Tool. Microsoft scared of losing ground promised us that they would be out with their version of the utility before the year ends.
Now, Yahoo! has announced that they would release their desktop search tool soon as well! Wow, consumers never had it so good. Three of the biggest online brands fighting to give them tools to search their own computers. Mac users get Google’s message when they announced that a Mac version was under planning as well. Apple is already working on the Spotlight technology for their MacOS Tiger release.
The announcement about Yahoo’s version of the tool was made by Company CEO Terry Semel at a conference in Arizona. For a user like me, I just want a tool that lets me help find files and content on my system’s 150GBs HDD faster and smoother. Without eating 10Gig for cache of course! Let us see who can come out with the best product. Keep watching this space…
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November 10th, 2004 at 01:47 am
[...] Market. Their online search engine stands nowhere on popularity charts and now Google and Yahoo! are going after their desktop searching capabilities. Google has alre [...]
November 3rd, 2004 at 01:11 am
If you’re interested in Google/Yahoo Desktop search, you might want to look at a similar application that I use 30 times a day!
ESP (yes, short for Extra Sensory Perception) replaces the start menu, desktop icons, Windows Explorer, File->Open dialog bo s, and Internet Explorer favorites. It searches all of your documents, favorites, and programs by name, with a blazing fast search AS YOU TYPE. By watching what you use, and bringing up results sorted by usage, it truly lives up to its name.
Once you use it for a few days, you become hooked on how fast and easy it is to jump right to what you are looking for.
November 3rd, 2004 at 04:39 am
Never had it so good? To help them find exactly what?
Are people so stupid they don’t realise these products are an immense security risk and a serious threat to privacy?
What is the difference between a euphemistically termed ’search index cache’ and a data trail?
Do you regularly clean your hard drive and shred sensitive documents? What about the search index caches? The data trails? Are they now gone too? Do you know how to get at them and shred them too?
Do you go to cybercafes? If so, are you blithering nuts?
Check this: Bill Crook Jr goes to a cybercafe. He downloads and installs Google DS or something similar. He sets it running. He pays and leaves.
He comes back in two days and logs into the same computer again. He goes into Google DS and types in ‘password’, ‘bank’, ‘hotmail’, and anything else he can think of.
He’s got the URLs, the actual password reminder pages, the passwords, the credit card numbers… He doesn’t have to hope someone has left web caches around – he’s got Google to help him!
And as for cookies – what’s the worry there? They’re in the Google caches too! So he can hijack complete online sessions!
Anyone feeble enough to think tools like this are good get all that is coming to them.