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Originally Posted by Damien
No, First of all Google desktop only appeared a few months after Apple showed spotlight off. Second of all it has much better results (instant, as you type), and has better searching and more file types. GoogleDTS is a program, while spotlight is built into the OS and so is much better integrated. Look at the site and watch the video of it
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Nah, Spotlight is just a program, too. The bit that's integrated into the OS is that the Tiger kernel will update the metadata index everytime it updates a file, this keeping it up to date. Unfortunately, if you're using a drive that get's written to by anything other than 10.4, then you've got to wait for the indexing cron job to come along and update it...
Incidentely, no-one has pointed out that this would be pretty easy for Microsoft to stick into Longhorn. After all, NTFS was designed around this idea of metadata -- it already keeps this separate from the files themselves, at the beginning of the drive for quick access. And NTFS was designed in what, 1993? Apple are lagging behind...