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Examining Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight

Posted by michael on from the seek-and-ye-shall-find dept.

Ton writes "Apple has published a discussion of Spotlight, the radical systemwide search technology that will be part of Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'. The really interesting part is that metadata will be playing a big role in Spotlight while just a few years ago people were afraid metadata in Mac OS X was going the way of the dodo."

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  1. Re:Reiser by dmp123 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If he could make a filesystem that wouldn't chew my data, I'd be more inclined to take his prophesies seriously! ;)

    David

  2. Re:Im very interested... by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Things making sense?

    Like hiding applications so that you are never sure if they are running or not? That doesn't make sense, it's fucking stupid.

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