Josh McFarlane
darsant at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 13:31:34 CST 2005
On 12/8/05, MartyConnelly <martyconnelly at shaw.ca> wrote: > I use Google's Desktop Search Engine. It takes about 12 hours to index a > full 20 gig drive. > Once done, searches are generally less than 5 seconds. > It only indexes to a depth of 5000 characters in a file unless > additional plugins used > You can search in only specific files by adding to the search string > filetype:doc to look at only word documents. > A plus is it also searchs your IE favourite URL's and whatever is in the > IE cache. > > I have used the find function only a couple of times in past year. I personally love it when I need to search text based documents. I have google search on my development machine, and it's pretty accurate when I need to dig up a 3rd-party header file or such that I remember downloading at one time, but forgot where I put it. Granted, it does have a long initial indexing time, but after that it's well worth it (and Office does indexing in the background like it does anyways, so I just disable that and no performance decrease.) -- Josh McFarlane "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." -Albert Einstein