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STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: Where was desktop search when we needed it? The network cloud is fast replacing traditional storage tools.
Desktop search engines are sprouting like weeds. Google's showed up in October, then Microsoft's in December, and now Yahoo's this month. It's a story full of bizarre twists and turns. Did you know, for example, that Microsoft gave us a capable desktop search engine years ago?
I'd used the Windows indexing service back in the late '90s, when it powered search on my NT-based Web server. But I'd forgotten -- or maybe never knew -- that the same indexing and search capabilities have long been available on the desktop, as Simon Burns and Wesner Moise pointed out in a pair of recent articles.
For performance reasons, the indexing service is disabled by default …
