Ben Reichelt’s Weblog

I have to agree with Brendan that while all of these new
desktop search applications are cool, I already know what I have on my
desktop.  I cannot recall more than a few instances of times where I knew
that I had something but couldn’t find it, except for emails.  If MS just
had a better integrated search in Outlook, I would be happy.  I don’t like
having to run a separate application that takes up my precious taskbar space and
also slows down my machine.

I’m wondering why it took so long for decent search
capability to be available?  Was it just because of lack of
competition?  This appears to be the case. They already have the
indexing service, so they could create an index of users’ files, if they just
put some options into that service that allowed users to specify which file
types get indexed, I would think a lot of the work would be done.  But not
until only a few months ago did MS take searching seriously, and they were still
late to the party, a party started by Google.