Apple centers Spotlight on desktop search

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Let us welcome Superiority in Kind and, or Degree

Windows offers multiple-search fields--better than single field search of popular search services. The description of Apple?s Spotlight holds out more than what one can experience with Windows desktop.

If Apple?s metadata is accessible, extensible, and controlled, the Information Seekers need not Search, they can Find. I am waiting to watch and try Tiger, Spotlight, and MacWorld KeyNote.
Some of the words used & their meanings:
Metadata: Tags, Annotations with Typing & Weighting.
Accessible: A provision for ?Information Seekers? ?Authors & Editors of Information? to view and edit the ?metadata of the documents? and, or the ?programs that create and operate on metadata?.
Extensible: A provision for defining and modifying metadata and the (structure) relationships of metadata along with maintaining versions and their up-ward and down-ward compatibility.
Controlled: A provision for information seekers, authors, and referees to ?Define, modify and extend? metadata and an editor to make and enforce final decision decisions for each domain of knowledge.

All documents tagged with ?controlled metadata? can then be assessed and ranked with high precision by programs in response to ?structured queries using some of the controlled metadata?. It needs ?one-time semi-automated effort? but the benefits are recurring for every information seeker and every query and for the ?Find Service Provider? all the time and every time.
Some of the above seem to be available in Apple?s Spotlight. It would be nice to have these features without being tied to one OS.
Let?s work together.

pvn@hyd.cmc.net.in putchavn@yahoo.com

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