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I have been testing Google Desktop Search GDS, and while it may be fast, it is, I expected a bigger interaction with the windows shell, like copying and pasting groups of documents, and an easier way to make advanced searches, (e.g. just PDF docs, from a date). While you can use the old Google tricks (filetype:PDF), it is not really intuitive. Maybe I should have a look at Yahoo version, not the MS, that scares me. Of course, it really excels when searching for that document with that precised text.
I have installed some plugins to GDS, to seek for Java docs, music, and to allow GDS to remember CD and DVD compilations.
The test case was to search for songs containing the word light. GDS took 5 seconds, while windows took minutes. In GDS I had to query once for "light filetype:MP3" and another time for "light filetype:wma", if anybody knows a better way, please stand up. Windows returned 109 results, it included folders with the light name and some other file formats, all of them audio related. GDS brought back 22. Both of them gave me duplicated results, strange...
You can see the results in the following post.
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