It seems Google will soon launch a desktop search product. It will be interesting to see if this takes off. In the past I don’t think most folks had enough stuff on their desktops that they really needed a search tool to find things. But perhaps we’ve reached the tipping point.
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May 21, 2004 at 4:06 pm |
Well, I have a pdf folder with > 1 GB, and think on a classical secretary and it’s letters in office formats.
Imagine a P2P Search engine in a style of napster.
http://mas.cs.umass.edu/pub/paper_detail.php/358
Of course you will have documents that you will share with the network and documents you only index for own use.
joa23
August 12, 2004 at 11:14 am |
I have a lot of info in PDF and other formats too, but I think it will be better to have something like automatic directory (taxonomy?) builder instead of search (simple Windows search ficility provides enough for me, I have no billions of content units) to have documents and other content grouped or associated with each other by it’s meaning (category, properties, etc) too. M$ doing now something like this for Longhorn – WinFS (synthesis of NTFS and RDBMS). But I think it is possible to do with existing filesystem.
Regards,
Vasily
December 31, 2004 at 9:38 am |
I seems that desktop search has started some kind of war. Almost every week you can find a new one.
These are based on Lucene.NET
http//www.ascirum.de/ascirumxp
http://www.lookoutsoft.com/