Yahoo Releases Desktop Search Tool Beta

Rolan writes "Yahoo! has released to BETA their Desktop Search Tool. It has a much longer list of file types that it will search, including compressed files, than the Google Desktop Search Tool. Though, the usefulness of a good number of those file types would come into question for most people."

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Yahoo! Says, "Me Too!" -- Again

[savagedome]

Motley Fool has a write up about YDS.

http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05011117.htm

Re:open source?

[naugrim]

Beagle is the closest thing out there that I know of for open source. It isn't web based but when it works properly (it's still in development) it is supposed to be able to search bookmarks, email, IM logs, etc. similar to how these desktop search programs work.

Re:OpenOffice.org/StarOffice

[stg]

Have you actually seen the documentation of Firefox's formats?

The history file, for example, is spectacularly awful. Check out https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24143 8
(not a link since bugzilla won't accept Slashdot as a referrer) - "please make history.dat easier to parse (i.e., not Mork)"

Some other references to the format:

http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/mork/primer.t xt
http://jwz.livejournal.com/312657.html
http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html

Re:Directories

[AntigonusPiglet]

It's in the FAQ (http://desktop.yahoo.com/faq):

Yahoo Desktop Search ... gives you control to change those settings including:

• Only index files that are explicitly marked for indexing
• Only index specific file types and not index others
• Only index files under a specific file size
• Configure indexing options on a directory by directory basis, including:
• Never index
• Index only filenames and sizes
• Index filenames, sizes, and file contents