Apple Spotlight desktop search & desktop search round up
CNET News.com"Not to miss the search beat reverberating throughout the PC market, Apple Computer chief Steve Jobs touted the company's innovations in desktop search coming with its next Mac OS X upgrade...
Jobs previewed the feature during his speech Tuesday, and said the update is on track to be delivered in the first half of 2005. "And that is going to be long before Longhorn," Jobs said, in an apparent dig at rival Microsoft's much-heralded search technology for the operating system. Longhorn is slated to ship in the second half of 2006.
Spotlight is an indexing engine that tracks every file as it is created, opened or changed, copied or deleted. By constantly tracking all of those files, as well as their complete contents, Spotlight can then quickly and powerfully search the files at a moment's notice. When a person tries to remember where he or she stored travel information for an upcoming vacation, for instance, Spotlight already knows which files contain the words "Jamaica" or "hotel."
Blinkx, a desktop-search software maker, introduced a Mac version of its software this week, in one of the first search applications for the computer.
On the PC, numerous companies including Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves, X1 Technologies and Microsoft's MSN have introduced software to scour files on the hard drive. "
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