RE: desktop search recommendations

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

Can't answer that one for sure, Ned. I'm impressed you built your own.
All I can say is that WDS has proven very effective for me. At the
moment, it's got more than 208,000 items indexed, and I get answers
within seconds or even fractions of a second.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Ned Bedinger [mailto:doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:33 PM
To: Pinkham, Jim
Cc: Kevin McLauchlan; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: desktop search recommendations

Pinkham, Jim wrote:
> Kevin, indexed file types are noted below -- and the WDS help also 
> describes ways to make the software further extensible through
iFilters:
> *********
>    
> 
> "Searchable file types
> Microsoft Windows Desktop Search indexes more than 200 of the most 
> common file types, all of which are listed below.
> 
> However, Windows Desktop Search cannot index every type of file. 


I wonder what this is about. I built an indexer once, and it could open,
read, and index any file on disk.  It could index the text in an
otherwise binary file (a visio diagram, a spreadsheet, a word doc, etc).

  So if my homemade indexer could do that, and it was just stock VB that
I used to do it, I wonder what's with WDS in this regard?
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