Yahoo! Search has unveiled Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta, a free application available for download at http://desktop.yahoo.com. Consumers can now quickly search through the thousands of emails, attachments, documents, music files, images and videos stored on their hard drive and instantly find what they are looking for.

Yahoo! Desktop Search identifies over 200 file types and provides instantaneous search results. Using award-winning technology developed by X1 Technologies Inc, it has a number of unique features not available on most other desktop search product. This includes:

The most comprehensive search results, spanning over 200 different file types including Outlook and Outlook Express email; word, PowerPoint and excel documents, PDFs, html files, mp3 music files and more

Results that are displayed as fast as you type in a search query

The ability to find and play audio or video files without launching a separate media player

A preview window that allows you to view entire files within Yahoo! Desktop Search without opening them

"Almost every computer owner has been in the situation of forgetting where that all important document has been filed. With the launch of Yahoo! Desktop Search, finding information literally takes seconds, regardless of where it sits, be it on the users' hard drive, the Yahoo! network or the web." says Salim Mitha, Director of Yahoo! Search UK.

The introduction of Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta is the first of many planned product releases designed to help users save time and be more productive by creating a single search experience that enables them to access personally relevant information and content stored on their desktop and in the Yahoo! network.

X1 Technologies partnership
To provide users with the most compelling desktop search offering on the market, Yahoo! has partnered with X1 Technologies, a recognized leader in the desktop search space. The collaboration enables Yahoo! to deliver a free, award-winning desktop search solution to all users and Yahoo!'s global audience of more than 160 million registered users.

"We are pleased to work with Yahoo! on powering their desktop search initiative," said Josh Jacobs, president, X1 Technologies. "In partnership with Yahoo!, we can ensure that the largest audience on the Web can take advantage of this technology while businesses, both large and small, can turn to X1 for enterprise desktop search solutions."