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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. Yea works for me too. by LoveTheIRS · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yep "find / | grep whatever-I-Want" works great for me too