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November 17, 2004
Blinkx's smarter desktop search
Blinkx Inc is releasing what may be a smarter desktop search tool using smart folders which are intelligent folders that automatically update their content as new information becomes available based on the ideas contained within the content of those files.
Matt Hicks, of eWeek says:
"...users can automatically populate a folder with Web and local content based on the context of the documents in the folder or a description of the folder's purpose."
How does it work?
Smart folders are created when a user right-clicks on a normal folder. This creates a desktop smart folder that then implicitly, persistently and automatically populates similar documents from your PC, news articles from the Web, TV, radio or video clips. In fact, anything from anywhere you specify can be added to a smart folder. Alternatively, users can explicitly create a smart folder by typing in a keyword, phrase or clicking on the document you are currently reading or writing. Similar information will then be added to the smart folder automatically as soon as it appears.
Apparently Microsoft and Apple have both entertained the idea of creating something like this but it looks like Blinkx is one step ahead of them.
Blinkx is a free download that integrates with Windows applications and Web browsers
Posted by Steve MacLellan at November 17, 2004 07:30 AM
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Apparently Ask Jeeves Inc. plans to release a desktop-search product in December. Yahoo! isn't to be left out of the melee either. Yahoo Inc. Its chief executive, Terry Semel, said in a financial analyst conference earlier this month that the Sunnyvale, Calif., company is working on desktop search.
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at November 18, 2004 06:55 AM
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