Desktop Search
Source: New Scientist
Apple Previews Desktop Search Technology
This area is making news on what seems like a daily basis. From the article, “The ‘most revolutionary’ feature of Tiger, according to [Steve] Jobs, is a new search tool, known as Spotlight. This fits into the desktop task bar and promises to let users search through various types of data, including email messages, address book entries, text documents and images in a fraction of a second. Spotlight can scour through more than 100,000 files in less a second. It achieves this by using special classifying information known as “metadata”, which is automatically tagged to documents to provide a simple description.” The author mentions Google’s rumored product (will it be available for the Mac?) and the MS Longhorn technology but fails to note existing players like X1 and the recent Ask Jeeves acquisition of Tukaroo.
UPDATED 7/1: Sun Microsystems has licensed the Watson search technology for desktop search. (via News.com)

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