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Subject:Re: Is wildcard functionality well known enough? From:Barry Campbell <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:28:35 -0500
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:23:22 -0800 (PST), John Posada
<jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Have you tried the free Google Desktop Search application that Google
> came out with for searching your own computer? It's still beta and
> we're waiting for it to search PDFs, which I'm told is on the way,
> but it's a great first start.
Yes, several folks in our group have been using it since it became
available. It really slowed down our computers during the initial
indexing run after installation, but since then there is no
perceptible performance hit at all, and I agree it's a great first
start.
I too would like the PDF search functionality, and also I fervently
wish that I could point the indexing engine at selected network drives
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