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Yahoo! Releases Desktop Search Tool

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thus-faster-only-counts-for-windows dept.

Hobadee writes "According to The Register, Yahoo! has released a desktop search program to compete with Google's. Apparently Yahoo's version is native to Windows, and thus faster than Google's, but less portable. Other question - what does this mean for things like the Google Search Appliance? Personally, I still like 'find / > index' in a cron script, then just grep 'index'...."

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  1. Re:What is wrong with the current tools? by HermanAB · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The Windoze search tools are sloooooooow and don't work very well, but most of all, common users simply don't know how to use it.

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    Oh well, what the hell...