The search engine giant Yahoo Inc. (www.yahoo.com) announced on March 23 that it is quadrupling the amount of storage provided with its free e-mail accounts and upgrading its desktop search software. Yahoo will provide 1 GB of storage for each free e-mail account. The current limit is 250 MB. The expanded storage will be available in mid-April.
Yahoo is also expanding the reach of its desktop software, a test product designed to find material stored on computer hard drives. Yahoo's software, licensed from X1 Technologies (www.x1.com), will now index content from e-mail address books and discussions in Yahoo's instant messaging service. As part of its e-mail changes, Yahoo also is providing software from Symantec Corp. (www.symantec.com) to clean viruses detected in attachments.
