http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc04/
showed an amazingly fast, system-wide search facility called Spotlight
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight.html
Steve showed searching hundreds of thousands of files by a combination
of content, filenames and metadata. The metada included things like:
-- when referenced
-- image orientation (landscape/Portrait)
-- image copyright/watermark/colort type (CMYK, RGB)
It was very fast and quite impressive -- he was able to search for
"Halfdome" and find a PDF document that had a map of Yosemite, but the
search word never appeared in the title.
And, you are able to create "Smart Folders" on topics of interest & the
will be immediately updated as files containing the search words are
added/changed/removed.
Very impressive drill-down on search results, too!
The spotlight preso is about 42:02 min into the keynote -- if you want
so see it in action.
My immediate impression is that the search technology would be a great
addition for web sites
The technology can be included in any apps you write for the Mac --
might be be a way to compensate for lack of Verity on the Mac platform
-- or depending how it is written (Java), something that Apple makes
available for other platforms.
Have a look!
There's this girl who sells batteries at the beach:
"She sells C cells at the sea shore"
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