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Google Unveils Desktop Search, Takes on Microsoft
About time. Like many, I've often wondered why Google can search a billion webpages in a blink of an eye, but it takes an eternity to search for a simple document on your own computer.
About time. Like many, I've often wondered why Google can search a billion webpages in a blink of an eye, but it takes an eternity to search for a simple document on your own computer.
posted by Stuart Buck at
11:04 AM
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In a word-- indexing.
You have to create an index of all the documents in order to search quickly, much like Google does of the web. Windows doesn't do this by default-- it would certainly slow things down while it's going on. Unix systems do indexing for precisely this purpose-- but they update the index (a time and CPU intensive process) at around 3 to 4 am, expecting the computer to be left on all the time and that those times will be free.
X1 already does this and does it really well. www.X1.com - there is a free trial period and it is reasonably priced for permanent use. I highly recommend it - and I don't work for them.
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