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AP Wire | 12/10/2004 | Yahoo Adding Tool to Search Hard Drives: “Yahoo Adding Tool to Search Hard Drives

MICHAEL LIEDTKE

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is adding a tool to search computer hard drives as it scrambles to catch up with Google Inc. and stay a step ahead of Microsoft Corp. in the battle to help users sort through gobs of information on the Internet and the desktop.
Yahoo announced the plan late Thursday, but will wait until January to introduce the free tool for searching e-mails and a wide variety of other files stored on computers operate on Windows.
Unlike Google’s desktop search tool, Yahoo’s won’t operate within a browser. The distinction means that Yahoo’s desktop searches won’t be co-mingled with online searches conducted at its Web site.
The product, licensed from a pioneering startup named X1 Technologies, seeks to cure a common computer-induced headache by making it as quick and easy to find digital information offline as it has become online.”

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