Yahoo To Launch Desktop Search In Early 05

Yahoo will follow Google's lead and dive head first into desktop search in early 2005.
Desktop search seems to be the next frontier in the battle for internet supremecy as both Yahoo and Microsoft seem to be a few months behind what Google is doing in Mountainview, California.
Earlier this year Google began Beta-Testing Gmail, a web-based e-mail client whose main selling point was an incredible 1 gigabyte of storage space. Yahoo Mail quickly followed suit and increased their storage space to 100 MB from 6 MB, and Microsoft's Hotmail is currently in the process of upgrading customers to 250 MB from 2 MB.
And now the race is on for the top spot in the realm of desktop search.
Desktop search allows a user to run a search string in a search engine and gather results from the internet as well as their computer's harddrive.
For instance if you ran a search string for the Boston Red Sox on Google Desktop Search, Google would automatically search the contents of your hardrive and if you had an AIM or MSN Messenger conversations about the BoSox those conversations would show up in your search results.
At the heart of Yahoo's new search tool is X1 Technology, which was developed by Bill Gross.
Gross was the brain child behind search marketing company GoTo.com, which eventually became Overture and was bought by Yahoo for over $1.6 billion in 2003.