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Yahoo Serves Mac Searchers With Inquisitor Acquisition

Yahoo acquired Inquisitor, a Safari browser plug-in that auto-completes queries (and provides links to Web pages, video and other content within the drop down box), and has now bundled it into search. So Mac users have their own version of Search Assist, sans the affiliate ad links that supported Inquisitor in the past.

Users can download the free plug-in with Yahoo as the default engine, but the Web giant has maintained Inquisitor's independence--so users can tie it to any compatible search engine of their choice. Meanwhile, David Watanabe, founder and developer of Inquisitor and members of his Mac-savvy team will stay on as in-house engineers.

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