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Posted by JoeM on November 30, 2005, 12:21 pm
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less than intuitive you have got to be kidding MSN Desktop search allows
you to choose what to search for. By edfault it is MyDocuments and
e-mail(Which YOU choose during Install anc can change later, unlike google).
Besides the fact the MSN Desktop Search gives you more freedom of what to
search for, it search faster then GoogleDesktop Search 2.0.
> Where can feedback be given on this beast?
>
> I think the integration with Windows XP SP2 is appalling.
>
> I've elected to use the WDS with Windows Explorer, so that when I am
> exploring say C:\TEMP, and click the Search tool button, the display gives
> me the green Desktop textbox and below that a series of empty "Search
> filters for Everything:"
> Sure, if C:\TEMP has been (fully) indexed I can use this in similar
> fashion to the way I did with the MSN Desktop Search.
>
> Questions: What is the unlabelled textbox above the Author: one? In fact -
> for a new user - where are the instructions on using this entire
> interface, which is less than intuitive?
>
> If this location has not yet been indexed at all (a nice feature, to tell
> me this fact), I can elect to use the Search Companion (and I've dumbed it
> down so it hasn't the kitch "helpers"). An entirely new XP-style search
> instance ("Search Results") appears.
>
> I would have thought that my initial Explorer folder (C:\Temp) would have
> been remembered. Or, if I had clicked on the ellipsis [...] button next
> to the Folder: textbox, and browse for a different folder location than
> C:\Temp (eg, "C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\_LYNE" - as I
> have just done), I woul expect that this new path would be retained and
> used in the Search Companion's inteface. Instead, I get a new interface
> (why not replace the WDS one?), and the Look in: textbox has (example)
> Local Hard Drives (C:;D:) as the default location.
>
> This really is an appalling series of interfaces.
>
> IL Thomas
> GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia
>
>
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