[Search-l] open source search - on the desktop

[jer]

For those that missed it, here's a very thorough review of some of  
the OS desktop search tools, definitely worth reading and I'm sure  
that as these advance, there will be overlap at the code level with  
web search (particularly meta-data mining of different file types):

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/desktop_search_beagle_part_1
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/desktop_search_beagle_part_2
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/ 
desktop_search_tools_gnu_linux_tracker_recoll_strigi_deskbar

Jer