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We knew it wouldn't be long in the "me too" world of search engines before the rest of the search engines followed Google's lead with a desktop search utility. Danny Sullivan reports that Yahoo's will be out in January and MSN and Ask will be later this month. Only time will tell if MSN's desktop search is ready for primetime by the end of the month. Remember, this is Microsoft we're talking about, so an extension of that deadline is to be expected. AOL also has a desktop search tool (powered by Copernic) that is in currently in beta.

Here's a timeline for the release of desktop search by each search engine:
* October 14: Google Desktop released
* December 15: Ask Jeeves desktop search due for release
* December 31: MSN desktop search due for release by this date or earlier
* January 31: Yahoo desktop search due for release by this date or earlier
* Sometime In 2005: AOL's combined browser and desktop search should be out at some point

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