Comments on: Microsoft fixes date for desktop search tool

Execs announce firmer launch date for software that digs through e-mail and files alike, after Google puts out its own program.

[jaximflash]

It's cool but is there a demand for this?!

A desktop search tool. Sure, it might be useful occassionally, but is there a real need for this? If you're pretty organized, the default desktop search tool that's already built into windows is sufficient. What does everyone else think?

[dejo]

I think there's a demand

"If you're pretty organized..."

This may be a good tool for those people who aren't organized.

"the default desktop search tool that's already built into windows
is sufficient"

...but not overly quick. If these new tools do some kind of pre-
emptive indexing to make searching very, very quick, they will
be nice additions and cut down on the frustration factor. For
example, I use a program called TextPad. It has a feature to
"search in files" that is amazingly faster than if I did the same
thing using the Windows built-in search. And I don't believe it
does any prior indexing. Windows Search needs to become much
faster in finding results.

Current windows search has so many limitations

It sometimes doesn't let me find my .java and .c files.

http://labnol.blogspot.com

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2004/10/detailed-comparison-of-desktop-search.html

What is missing in Desktop Search Tools

I have a wishlist of features that I would like to be included in next version of desktop search tools.

Read my comments here http://labnol.blogspot.com

Feel free to add to this list of "what's missing"

[Shorty_Says]

What a piece of garbage this code is! It run away with CPU and memory resource while you changes web pages, makes your scroll bars freeze so you can't do anything but wait on it to finish what ever the hell it's off doing on the web. I had to uninstall it to get control over my PC back. This is better defined as Mal-ware than as an enhancement. What a complete piece of junk. Nice work Microsoft...