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Re: Is the jury back on Desktop Search apps?
de Franklin 06/01/2006 01:35
On 31 May 2006, badgolferman<REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Franklin, 5/31/2006, 3:53:58 AM, <Xns97D45A8828C0B8FCE1@127.0.0.1>
> wrote:
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>> It must be a year or so since Desktop Search products became very
>> popular. And most of them are freeware. At one stage I was
>> running several at the same time to compare them.
>>
>> Are there any firm favorites emerging?
>>
>> I settled for Yahoo Desktop Search.
>>
>
> Can you explain why a desktop search program is better than the
> built in search program of the OS?
>
The OS's search is not indexed, it is far far slower, it reads
binaries as a flat file, it has no compound boolean search arguments,
it is not even as effecient as third party freeware such as Agent
Ransack, it has no omit/include for individual folders, etc.
Something like Locate32 on Windows knocks the brains out of the OS's
native search for file names but it is still not as good as a Desktop
Search for locating file content.
Microsoft has brought out MSN Dsktop Search and that is in addition
to its native OS search so someone somewhere thinks the difference is
great enough to justify it.
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