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> From: Pinkham, Jim [mailto:Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com]
> I've been using Windows Desktop Search for probably nine months now. In
> a work environment with vital information scattered hither and yon, it's
> been a huge efficiency boost. I can search either my hard drive and the
> network locations I select or the Internet. It doesn't create huge files
> or tap a lot of resources. It's very intuitively structured, able to
> break out by file types, including e-mail, and extremely fast. The only
> really time-consuming point is the first build of the index it uses.
> Just for grins, before sending this out, I queried for "desktop search
> recommendations" and got 10 hits among 208,000+ documents in a blink --
> including your e-mail. Once the initial index is built, it keeps
> everything updated on the fly. You can also do advanced searches,
> inluding Boolean and date-constrained. Currently in ver. 3.01 at
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx.
I use OpenOffice.org, The GIMP and some other open-source applications in my
daily work, so the search engine would need to index and find those. Does
WDS perform its functions in sufficiently catholic fashion?
If so, then our IT Dept. would likely let me install it without squawking...
much.
Thanks,
Kevin
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