There's a hot new battle
emerging between Google,
Yahoo, and
Microsoft
over finding specific files on your hard drive, a.k.a. localised
search. If you're like most people, you stuff your hard drive
with more digital photos and ripped music files every day. Maybe
you toss them willy-nilly into your My Documents folder in
Windows, or -- if you're really organised -- you slip them into
My Music or My Photos. If you're in business, you probably also
pack away documents and correspondence that, if lost, could cost
you time and money to recover.
But while it's handy to keep all of your files on your PC's hard drive, it's not quite so simple to find a specific one in the jumble. Before you know it, your PC has turned into a black hole where all-important information goes to die. That's why, right now, a handful of companies are fighting to build the holy grail of desktop search: an app that will quickly, easily find your files no matter where you stashed them.
Like search engines that scour the Internet and produce results in seconds, these new hard drive versions can instantly pull up references to files based on keywords, file types, or designated folders. For example, these apps can hunt down your vacation photos as long as they have something searchable, such as the words "summer 2005," somewhere in their name.
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