Tracker: A Meta Search Tool for Linux
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| The Tracker Search Tool (known officially as MetaTracker), is a meta search
| application written for the Gnome desktop, although it will, with the correct
| libraries run on both the xfce and KDE desktops as well. In the past, I've
| reviewed the Beagle desktop search tool as well as the new Google Desktop
| search for Linux. Why another search tool? Two reasons. First is because of
| the three, I like Tracker the best. Second is because I feel Tracker often
| gets ignored among Linux users. Beagle is often the defaul search tool for
| Linux distributions (even though, in my opinion, it still has far too much
| going against it - speed in particular - to warrant the inclusion), and
| Google Desktop Search is... well, it's a Google product, and therefore
| probably gets too MUCH attention, even though it is a very good product.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/325488/tracker_a_meta_search_tool_for_linux.html
I've done some browsing to ensure it's Mono-free <
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/tracker/trunk/src/tracker-search-tool/ >.
Related:
Google Desktop for Linux
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| Linux is all about choice and its nice to see programs coming from all areas.
| Google Desktop for Linux does work well and offers features that worked well
| and unobtrusively. I prefered Google Desktop over Beagle because of Google
| Desktop's ability to index Gmail and the fact that it’s not dependant on the
| dog slow Mono library. Well done G people.
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http://lunapark6.com/google-desktop-for-linux.html
Desktop search tools for GNU/Linux: the competition hots up (part one)
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| GNU/Linux is about choice and therefore freedom and therefore power
| and when it comes to desktop search tools the same mantra applies.
| If some efforts have fallen by the wayside the GNU/Linux community
| possesses sufficient imagination and talent in depth to come up
| with alternatives and I want to look at three Beagle rivals and
| compare them to that established search tool.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/desktop_search_beagle_part_1
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| Desktop search engines are all the rage these days. While Beagle may
| be the most popular desktop search engine for Linux, there are
| alternatives. If you are looking for a lightweight and easy-to-use
| yet powerful desktop search engine, you might want to try Recoll.
| Unlike Beagle, Recoll doesn't require Mono, it's fast, and it's
| highly configurable. Recoll is based on Xapian, a mature open source
| search engine library that supports advanced features such as phrase
| and proximity search, relevance feedback, document categorization,
| boolean queries, and wildcard search.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/1831255
Microsoft Still Needs Help Understanding Search
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| When a company resorts to bribery not once, but twice in an effort
| to get customers to try their product, you have to consider that
| maybe there's something wrong with the product itself.
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http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-News/Microsoft-Still-Needs-Help-Understanding-Search/
http://tinyurl.com/2r6vll
Unifying Desktop Search
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| Wasabi is a new proposal on FreeDesktop.org for a unified desktop
| search and metadata specification.
|
| [...]
|
| If they can get either KDE or GNOME to support it then the
| chances will be good. In fact, KDE has been focusing on various
| API's for the upcoming KDE4 release so it should be right up their
| alley. After all, Phonon is doing the exact same thing for
| multimedia backends.
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http://linuxappfinder.com/blog/unifying_desktop_search
Desktop search for Linux
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| I already wrote a bit about desktop search on Linux systems, you can
| find more in the section Desktop Search (surprise, surprise).
|
| However, the last look at the situation in general is quite some months
| ago, and several things have developed since then.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/desktop-search-for-linux-autumn-2006/
Beagle++
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| Beagle++ is an extensions to the Beagle search tool for the personal
| information space. Beagle++ now makes that search semantic, features
| you never experienced before. As a prototype it reflects our
| current research activities towards the Semantic Desktop.
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http://beagle.kbs.uni-hannover.de/
Linux Desktop Search
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| Searching in Linux starts those venerable command line favorites:
| find, grep, and locate. These tools are very powerful and can easily
| be integrated into scripts, but for many users, this usefulness is
| also one of their key weaknesses...
|
| [...]
|
| [Covers Kat, SearchMonkey, Beagle, and more]
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http://linuxappfinder.com/blog/linux_desktop_search
Searchmonkey balances command-line power and desktop ease of use
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| Searchmonkey, formerly known as Xsearch, is a graphical search
| tool whose main page describes it as the combining of Beagle's
| simplicity of use with the exactness of the find and grep commands.
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http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/18/1617228&from=rss
Why Did Microsoft Decimate Search in Vista?
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| Until RC2, one of the best features of Vista was its speedy,
| exceedingly powerful Search features. But with RC2, Microsoft
| essentially threw Search under the train, making some of the most
| bizarre user interface decisions imaginable. Why did Microsoft decide
| to decimate the great Search tool?
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http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/11/why_did_microsoft_decimate_sea.html
Desktop search is rotten in Vista
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| Ever since I installed Vista, Windows desktop search
| hasn't worked very well. My normal laser-guided ability
| to hone in on any information on my computer at the
| drop of my boss's hat has been mamed. I'm hobbling
| round like a war veteran who still has a stump of a
| mouse-clicking hand but prefers to type with his nose.
|
| [...]
|
| The promise of Vista is that desktop search is
| beautifully simple and integrated into the OS. After
| all, it's what we got after Microsoft skittled
| the over-ambitious WinFS plan. It should have been so
| easy... one tap of the Windows key, start typing,
| get results.
|
| It's not. It sucks.
|
| [...]
|
| Based on search performance alone, Vista is nowhere near
| ready for release.
|
| [...]
|
| XP... I didn't know how much I loved thee until I lost thee.
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http://www.apcstart.com/site/dwarne/2006/10/1296/somethings-rotten-with-desktop-search-in-vista
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