Yahoo! Releases Desktop Search Tool

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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Welcome to the 21st century

[slayer99]

Where we have "updatedb" and "locate". *grin*

Re:for all the slocate guys

[runderwo]

Yeah. I much prefer 'find / -exec cat {} >> /allmyfiles'. Then you can just grep that to see if what you're looking for is in any of your files. I haven't figured out how to get the filename back from it though, and also, the more and bigger files you have, the bigger the index gets for some strange reason. I haven't figured out those issues yet. I'm also being completely facetious, so shame on you if you've read this far in earnest.

find?

[__aafkqj3628]

Sorry, is locate too high-class for you?

Re:not true

[mollymoo]

If I ever got mod-points, I'd mod this one up. Wow, I RTFA and didn't pick up on that, and apparently the article poster didn't either.

Although to give the poster some credit, that website 'The Register' is not the best written of websites.

First line of first linked FA: "Yahoo! has licensed the X1 search software for Windows from tech incubator Idealab".

I guess the difference between you and I is that I not only read the FA but also took the time to understand it.

Is making a serious attempt at reading and understanding the article really too much to ask before you make a comment which will be seen by tens of thousands of people?