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1081 days ago
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1191 days ago
Posted by Paul We’ve been a bit slow in updating our blog recently, but rest assured we’ve been busy working! This past Tuesday, we released Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2. This is the first public release we’ve made since April, when we put out our Engine Preview. Things have improved significantly in the past 4 months: Most importantly, the UI is back ! We weren’t happy enough with the state of the UI in our prior release, so we had disabled it by default. This confused a lot of people last time, and was one of our largest complaints. For the first time ever, we have a working 64-bit version. While most 32-bit applications run just fine on 64-bit Windows, our tight integration with the explorer shell makes this harder than it initially appears. For many of you, the lack of WDS on 64-bit was a reason for staying on 32-bit Windows – now you’ve got one less reason to hold back! We've improved the memory consumption, performance, and overall ...
1248 days ago
Posted by Brandon On Monday I introduced you to some of the remote-searching capabilities of our upcoming beta release. Today I'd like to talk about a feature that will allow you search over hundreds of different third-party data sources. It's called RSS. Or more specifically, OpenSearch RSS. What is OpenSearch ? It's a simple format for sharing search results, spearheaded by Amazon's A9 search division. It specifies standard query and results formats, as well as mechanisms for sharing data sources via OpenSearch Descriptions. In fact, this is the same mechanism that Internet Explorer 7 uses for discovering search providers and adding them to its built-in search box. However, the search box in Internet Explorer can really only send you to one place. And most of the time, what you get is a web page. Using the power of a rich client, we're able to do more. In an earlier screenshot we showed ...
1250 days ago
