Everybody’s favorite natural-language search engine has just unleashed its own brand of currently-in-beta desktop-searching on the world, owing to the fact that well, everybody else is doing it, so why can’t Jeeves.
After having tried MSN’s Desktop Search for a day or two (and having over 3 months worth of Google Desktop Search experience), I can honestly say that, at the moment, there’s nothing unique about the Jeeves DS featureset. Based on Tukaroo, a search engine startup that they acquired earlier this year, Jeeves doesn’t index inside IM archives (like Google) or PDFs (like MSN), but it does allow you to choose which file types to search.
I guess what I’m most excited about is Yahoo’s entry into the arena, which should be out before year-end. Most of my communications (IM and email) are over the Yahoo network, so to be able to index IM conversations and email archives would be a huge help. I just hope it’s not as buggy as the current version of yM.