Yahoo added a contextual search feature to its Desktop Search this week and officially launched the service, which has been in beta since January, reports DM News. To get quickly get web search results, desktop users can turn to the new LiveWords feature to get brief search results. When users are searching for emails, IM archives, contacts or documents, they can highlight text within a preview pane and then click the LiveWords button to start their search.

"We've steadily been working on improving the core file, email and document search capabilities," Albert Lee, senior product manager at Yahoo Search, wrote in a company blog. "Selecting a word or phrase that you'd like to know more about will…present you with the most relevant results."