June 4, 2005

Tech note: desktop searching part deux

By Dennis Sevakis
'MSN Search Toolbar' web & desktop searching Way back on 21 May, which must surely be the techie equivalent of the stone age given the rapid and inexorable progress of science and its application — after all, how many new models of cell phones and ring tones have popped up in the interim? — I wrote a short bit about desktop searching that took a look at Google's personal computer search engine and judged the results against TurboBrowser.  Today we look at Microsoft's freebee offering 'MSN Search Toolbar', the latest and greatest from everybody's buddy, Bill — Gates, that is. Whatever your opinion of Microsoft, its product offerings or Microsofties, the Toolbar is worth taking the time to download, install, and having your hard drive go through its indexing torture test. For, wonder of wonders, the thing actually works! When last we spoke, I reported that Google desktop had returned a list of 22 files when I searched system—wide for the single...(Read Full Article)