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Yahoo! takes a partner for desktop-search fray.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004
By Kim Peterson, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 10--Yahoo! plans to launch software in coming weeks that allows users to search for e-mail and other files stored on their computers, but unlike rivals Google and Microsoft, it is turning to a partner for help with the technology.
The company said yesterday that it is developing the software with X1 Technologies, a company in Pasadena, Calif., that makes business-productivity software, including a tool that searches a computer desktop for files. Its main product, X1 Search, sells for $75.
Yahoo!, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., said it will make its desktop search available free. The software will search hundreds of types of data, including photos, songs and...
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