Solving the Yahoo Search Puzzle… Sort of
April 5, 2008
Yahoo–the stage-managed ingenue staying out of Mr. Microsoft’s sweaty grasp–has one foot in the Web search camp and one in the enterprise search camp. The problem is finding the software to download. After some clicking and scanning, I think I figured out where to get the software after a colleague asked me, “Where is this IBM Yahoo program?”
If you want to get a copy of IBM Omnifind Yahoo! Edition, navigate to IBM’s Web site here. To learn what you can and can’t do with the free system, start with this explanation by Todd Leyba here.
Be aware that if you search for “Yahoo desktop search”, you will get links that point to the X1 Yahoo desktop search system. You can download that product here.
I still don’t have a good grasp of Yahoo’s many “faces of search”. I was able to locate these IBM and Yahoo products using Google. Neither the IBM Web site search nor the “improved” Yahoo search were of much help to me. Keep in mind that these “free” products have some constraints if you want to push them beyond their performance envelope.
Stephen Arnold, April 5, 2008
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