Re: Alternative YDS FAQ (user's point of view)
Here are the commonly asked questions regarding YDS, which is now a discontinued product:
1. The last public version of YDS:
Yahoo! Desktop Search 1.2
Build 1852je
yds1852je.exe
Release date: around Dec'2005
For now, you can still download this from secondary download sites such as:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Ya ... 05420067/1
2. Differences YDS vs. XEC:
Features that YDS have but XEC does not have:
==>YDS can index for Yahoo Instant Messenger messages
Features that XEC have but YDS does not have:
==>Windows Vista support
==>MS Office'2007 support
==>XEC has a convenient Deskbar
==>network indexing with the X1 Enterprise Client Deployment Manager
==>indexes emails for Thunderbird/Netscape/Eudora email programs
==>Real Time Indexing of Files and MS Outlook email
==>Drag-and-Drop search results into email as a file attachment.
==>This is as of v5.6.2 and XEC constantly has new features added, as well as bug fixes...
(get the idea?)