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01 May 2006, 01:00 UTC#1
In front of a live audience. (Or Net Video?)
Desktop Search and Net Search are from opposite ends of the
search spectrum. They won't do well on the desktop.
Show me the data.
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It has often been said that with search, nothing is found until
someone views the results. That point has become very clear
while checking out the Desktop Search competition. They list
the files that the results are in and sometimes display the
first hit. Where it is actually ledgable. Most times the first
file matches are just little yellow blobs on something that is
supposed to resemble a page of text.
They brag about finding so many matches in fractions of seconds.
To actually see all the results in context, is painfully slow with
these guys. Spectate Swamp can "Show you the data" in context
much much quicker. Just hit Enter Enter Enter as you fly through
the results (in context & full screen). Hands down winner SSDS.
I used the Search to merge a few large txt files into one, with a
special search key placed near the end.
The max indexing file size for these 3 is as follows:
(1) Yahoo would not index a 81MB text file
(2) Google would not index a 44MB text file
(3) Microsoft would not index a 1.1MB text file
Spectate Swamp has no known text file size limit!!!
Why would anybody want files this large?
Some users have thousands and thousands of text documents in
one format or another. Any application worth its salt can
export those to .txt files. Merge these thousands and thousands into
a handfull of large txt files. Eliminating directory clutter. Very
very few reports and documents are ever printed or sent multiple times.
I'm sure that with a little poking around more major deficiencies,
will crop up.
In a couple days, a comparison of video search capabilities.
Show me the Videos.
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