Ask Jeeves Jumps Into Desktop Search

Now Ask Jeeves has announced a Desktop Search product as well. Their beta version indexes Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), simple text files, Microsoft Outlook email messages, and image, music, and video files. Technical requirements are Windows 2000 or XP, Office 2000 or higher, and Outlook 2000, XP and 2003. It requires a minimum of a Pentium III computer running at 400MHz with 128 MB RAM.