desktop search recommendations

[Ned Bedinger]

Pinkham, Jim wrote:
> Kevin, indexed file types are noted below -- and the WDS help also
> describes ways to make the software further extensible through iFilters:
> *********
>    
> 
> "Searchable file types
> Microsoft Windows Desktop Search indexes more than 200 of the most
> common file types, all of which are listed below. 
> 
> However, Windows Desktop Search cannot index every type of file. 


I wonder what this is about. I built an indexer once, and it could open, 
read, and index any file on disk.  It could index the text in an 
otherwise binary file (a visio diagram, a spreadsheet, a word doc, etc). 
  So if my homemade indexer could do that, and it was just stock VB that 
I used to do it, I wonder what's with WDS in this regard?