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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:Radical by Meredeth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    MetaData is not new. Its not radical. But MS aparently can't make it work. So Apple gets to use it first, 5 percent of the computer population go wow! 95 percent ask why can't we have this, and Longhorn SP1 will get it and proclaim it as a great new radical technology.

  2. Re:Radical by the+quick+brown+fox · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Don't get me wrong, Apple does cool stuff but their strongsuit is marketing, not "invention".

    You've got to give them credit for product design as well. Nobody makes more desirable-looking software and hardware. Is it any wonder that Apple's fiercest supporters are graphic designers?