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Yahoo Will
Launch Desktop Search ... Eventually Yahoo
told ClickZ
it would reveal more details on its upcoming desktop search
today, noting that it would be based largely on existing Windows-only
desktop search player X1. Yahoo said the product would be
released generally in the coming weeks, allowing users to
search through past results histories, Yahoo Groups postings
and other Yahoo-branded services, as well as their own hard
drives. ClickZ reports that the X1 tool appears more full-featured
than Google's existing beta desktop search, although it takes
up even more memory and disk space than that required by Google,
which is quite prodigious.
Google Guys Interviewed
By Barbara Walters Barbara Wawa featured the
10 Most Fascinating People on tonight's 20/20.
"Larry Page and Sergey Brin are not your typical billionaires.
In fact, if you type billionaire into Google, the picture
that emerges - fancy cars, private jets, mansions, jewels,
supermodel girlfriends - isn't anything you'd find in the
lifestyle of the Google guys. Page drives a Prius, which costs
around $21,000. Brin gets around for the most part on in-line
skates, and he still lives in a rented apartment.
Since taking
Google public earlier this year, each is worth an estimated
$6 billion. Even the way they took their company public was
innovative. They let ordinary people bid on shares in their
initial public offering, not just the big banks, because they
thought it was fairer.
In fact, they see their work as more of a vocation than as
a means of getting rich. "We feel like we're making a
difference in the world - giving people information that they
want really quickly and effectively," Page said."
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