Tuesday, December 14, 2004
A personal thought on MSN Desktop Search
Something that was bound to happen did happen and finally Microsoft did live upto its promise of releasing a beta version of their desktop search. And to be quite honest, it looks and feels far better than Google. It has a more range of files types that can be searched and quite surprisingly it does a pretty decent job at it. The actual search is also pretty quick and is on par with GDS.
Google will have to seriously think about improving their desktop search tool and incorporate more file types in their indexing as at the moment only text, html and outlook files can be indexed.
However, I am eagerly awaiting the release of Yahoo desktop search as well. It is supposed to be based in X1 which has been around for a while now. All this competition is healthy and excellent for computer users all over the world.
Google will have to seriously think about improving their desktop search tool and incorporate more file types in their indexing as at the moment only text, html and outlook files can be indexed.
However, I am eagerly awaiting the release of Yahoo desktop search as well. It is supposed to be based in X1 which has been around for a while now. All this competition is healthy and excellent for computer users all over the world.
