Yahoo! searches desktops with X1

Yahoo! has choosen a great partner for its desktop search test. X1 is part of Bill Gross' Idealab, also home to transparent search engine co Snap. Gross also created Overture.

"Yahoo plans to stand out from the pack by cinching its portal assets--free e-mail, calendars, photos, music, instant chat and so on--with search. The company does not plan to place ads within its beta desktop search tool [...]"

Watch out Google, Microsoft etc, this is a very clever partnership.