Yahoo! takes a partner for desktop-search fray
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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.
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Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) and Acer Inc., the world's number-four branded personal computer (PC) vendor, today announced a multi-year strategic partnership to distribute a co-branded toolbar and start page and to set Yahoo! as the default search engine on all Acer PCs sold globally.
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Stepping up the battle of online search and services, Yahoo Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. have joined forces to tap each other&#39;s customers and put Web search features into Adobe&#39;s popular Acrobat Reader software.
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Portal player Yahoo! will compete with Google and MSN in the desktop search arena, CEO Terry Semel told an audience at a Morgan Stanley investor conference.
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DECEMBER 10, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Ask Jeeves Inc. are all set to jump into the desktop search market, two months after Internet search leader Google Inc.
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Ask Jeeves yesterday joined Microsoft in introducing a beta desktop search application. Ask Jeeves states that its Desktop Search makes it easy for people to find information on their computers or the Internet.
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Yahoo! gets into the game with its latest acquisition.
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Yahoo Inc.  and Web auctioneer  eBay  on Thursday announced a partnership designed to  boost their position against Microsoft Corp.  and Web  search leader Google Inc. , underscoring recent  speculation the two companies could eventually merge.
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Late last week, Yahoo! Inc. said it will begin testing a new desktop search engine in early January, with the hope of extending its search engine&#39;s reach, thereby contributing added, incremental paid search revenue.
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Not to be left out of desktop search, two search vendors on Monday leaped into the growing space for managing e-mail, documents and other hard-drive data.
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-- IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google Inc. and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
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Two months after Internet search leader Google offered a test version of a desktop search tool, Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves are all set to follow suit.
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Yahoo Now Default Home &#038; Search on g Computers Yahoo Search as partnered with Acer Computers to be the default search service within the world&#8217;s fourth largest computer company. The deal was announced early this morning and is a multi-year strategic partnership which will distribute a co-branded Yahoo toolbar and start page when Acer users log [...]
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Yahoo Inc. said on Thursday it  will begin testing a free desktop search service in early  January, following rivals hoping to extend the reach of wildly  profitable search-related advertising.
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com December 9, 2004, 9:00 PM PT. In a step to keep pace with chief rival Google, Yahoo plans to start testing a downloadable desktop search application in early January.
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Yahoo has announced that it will introduce a downloadable desktop search. It will use technology licensed from a California-based three-year startup firm, X1 Technologies.
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Yahoo Inc. said on Thursday it will begin testing a free desktop search service in early January, following rivals hoping to extend the reach of wildly profitable search-related advertising.