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Yahoo joined forces with IBM and hopes to challenge the position currently occupied by Google and Microsoft on the market of company search services.

The search product of IBM, Omnifind, allows organizations to search through its own documents. The new partnership will allow IBM to extend Omnifind to include web searches through Yahoo.

The IBM strategy is to increase its popularity among smaller companies. For Yahoo, which is behind Google on the online advertising market, this is an opportunity to increase its presence on the company search market, currently dominated by Google, Autonomy, Microsoft, SAP and Oracle.

The new product will be called IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition (OYE).

The software, which will be free to download, offers basic search functions using a familiar interface for millions of Yahoo users. It will index up to 500 000 documents or webpages, offering support for 200 document types and 30 languages.

Microsoft advised it’s users that the patch for the Mac version of Office was release by mistake through the update service.

The company recommended to those that installed the patch to remove it, although they didn’t announce a date when a final version will be available.

An official of Microsoft Security Response Center said that the posted updates were pre-release codes classified as part of tests for a later release.

The codes wore released before the testing process was over, due to human error. Microsoft also announced that will take measures so such mistakes will not happen again.