Where the search begins... and ends
Microsoft just launched its latest search tool - MSN Toobar Suite. It tries to unify the searching experience by searching the desktop files, emails and the Internet. The suit installs three toolbars; the clasic MSN Toolbar for IE, another for Outlook, and a one called the MSN Deskbar for the taskbar.
Even at its beta stage, it sure does a pretty good job. The initial indexing ran in the background for about 40 minutes without interrupting me or taking the system to a crawl. Once done, I fired my first search for "Windows media SDK". And within milliseconds, I was shown the results then and there. Pretty impressive. It was really really fast!
Wait, not too impressive when you see that it eats up a lot of your valuable taskbar space! And when you also have the Windows Media Player minimized, it comes to something like this:
About 50% of my taskbar already gone! Good thing is, you can drag it off the taskbar and stash it anywhere on the desktop or remove it altogether.
Now why did Microsoft give us a separate MSN toolbar search without integrating the new ultra-fast search engine to Windows Search itself?
Even at its beta stage, it sure does a pretty good job. The initial indexing ran in the background for about 40 minutes without interrupting me or taking the system to a crawl. Once done, I fired my first search for "Windows media SDK". And within milliseconds, I was shown the results then and there. Pretty impressive. It was really really fast!
Wait, not too impressive when you see that it eats up a lot of your valuable taskbar space! And when you also have the Windows Media Player minimized, it comes to something like this:
About 50% of my taskbar already gone! Good thing is, you can drag it off the taskbar and stash it anywhere on the desktop or remove it altogether.
Now why did Microsoft give us a separate MSN toolbar search without integrating the new ultra-fast search engine to Windows Search itself?
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