Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?

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Hi

I have been building this Desktop Search since 1999.

The visual basic code is Open Source and the exe is

downloadable.

I have been blogging and yapping about search in various

forums. Only to meet with Great resistance.

When I can organize my video, music, pictures and text

there isn't another program that I really need. With

Open Source the Operating System becomes irrelevant.

It started as a text search, then picture display was

added when we scanned in 5000+ old family album pictures.

When a match was found and the next line had the path

to a picture. That picture was displayed. It runs manual

and as a screen saver. After a few seconds the caption

on the picture can be displayed or not.

Then came video. With slow motion, Freeze frame and

Preset or Random start points in the video (mpeg2). Similar

options were added for music files (mp3)

Video is by far the most exciting part of Search. I can video

in a book and go directly to a given page and play that back

in slow motion. I can video in forum screens.

It has other important features any Search should have.

Ie EXTRACT. I do a context search for a particular "Subject:"

in my outmail file to build a mailing list from old emails. Then

I search that file in matching lines only mode; searching for "To:"

and I have all the email addresses in an output file. A little editing

removing duplicates etc and I have a clean list. I duplicate that

info with a cut and paste. resort it. The plug the required info

for my search in front of line 1 and 2 rather quickly.

If the Next line is a URL or strictly text, that data can be put in

the clipboard for pasting into a browser or as a search string or for

storing passwords.

It can run background copies of itself and has some primitive

navigation capabilities. That could make for a wonderful video

training tool.

It has no database and can easily be explained to the common man.

All they need to know about computing is, how to use this program.

(Very Simple, I'll do more training video.)

Thanks

Doug AKA Spectate Swamp

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