[ Thanks to Dan Warne
for this link. ]
“Desktop searching has always been a little confusing to me.
That’s because I have a lizard brain–so much of my time is spent
coding that I can’t stand to see things in disarray, particularly
files and directories, so I can generally find a file faster than a
search can.“When Google released Desktop Search for Windows, I played with
it. Full text searching, done blazingly fast, through anything
text-based on your drive, from your web cache to your emails and
personal documents. Impressive, but not without problems, the
biggest being the Windows-centric design which made portability
difficult…”
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