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Indexing Service anyone?

Has no one every heard of MS's Indexing Service? It comes with Win2K/XP/2003, and provides just as fast a full-text search as Google. Google Desktop search and Apple's Spotlight are akin to Indexing Service, NOT to WinFS search.

Indexing Service can index any type of data or property associated with a file. For instance, it can index pictures by their color depth, music files by their genre, etc. It even supports arbitrary, user- or application-defined properties.

Granted, MS ships these operating systems with Indexing Service turned off, and the UI for using it is not that great. But I wouldn't say MS is playing catchup to Google and Apple here.

Posted by: PB_z   Posted on: 10/25/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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