YimSearch

With all the people you get to chat with over the web, it’s a good idea to keep track of all conversations, especially if these are business-related. There are some instant messaging applications which prospered throughout the years, like Yahoo! Messenger, and with YimSearch you can easily browse through conversation history.

Needless to say that in order for YimSearch to be of any use to you, Yahoo! Messenger needs to be installed on your computer, and you need to also have some stored conversations. Note that the option to save history can be handled from the target app, which can also be set to clean history after a specific time, so you need to make sure everything is saved.

Yahoo! Messenger doesn’t really have to be running while browsing through history. However, you must provide the source directory of the target application, so it knows where to grab data from. It’s compatible with latest iterations as well, but conversations need to be saved on the computer you’re using it on.

When detected, the profile needs to be selected, in case you’re using more accounts. Note that credentials are not required, so others can easily access conversations from your account, or the other way around. Apart from profile, the target interlocutor also needs to be picked from a dedicated drop-down menu.

You can find text by writing down a text string in the dedicated area. Related options allow you to match character casing, or the whole word. Sadly, you need to copy the results yourself, because there’s no possibility to save an entire conversation to file.

All things considered, we can safely state that YimSearch lets you easily review past conversations by searching through your own history items for a specific text string. However, security is an issue here, since password is not required, and conversations need to be saved on the target computer for results to be retrieved.