Yahoo Desktop Search comes out of beta

Yahoo has launched the final version of its Desktop Search application. Compared to the beta version, which was released in January, Yahoo Desktop Search comes in addition with the

LiveWords function that allows users to instantaneously search for any keyword on the internet.LiveWords also lets users to highlight text within documents and click a button to search for those words in other documents on their hard drive.

Two of Yahoo Desktop Search’s advantages are that it includes more configuration options than its direct competitors and that it lets users to define search criteria.

The latest version of Yahoo Desktop Search indexes over 300 categories of files, ranging from e-mails including attachments, images, Yahoo Address Book, Yahoo Messenger conversations, Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDF to audio and video files