Search Heads for the Cloud

摘要

Desktop search engines are sprouting like weeds. Google's showed up in October, then Microsoft's in December, and now Yahoo's this month. It's a story full of bizarre twists and turns. Did you know, for example, that Microsoft gave us a capable desktop search engine years ago? I'd used the Windows indexing service in the late '90s, when it powered search on my NT-based Web server. But I'd forgotten — or maybe never knew — that the same search features have long been available on the desktop, as Simon Burns (infoworld.com/2456) and Wesner Moise (infoworld.com/2457) pointed out in a pair of recent articles.