Tag: INDEXING

Even before Twitter purchased Summize and turned it into Twitter Search, users started to realize that a deleted tweet was never truly deleted. If you knew what it said, you could easily find it by searching for some of the words, and even if you didn't, you could see someone's deleted tweets in the results for "from:username." M.G. Siegler over at TechCrunch noticed that after Twitter made ...

I have to admit that I was wrong about reMail. When I wrote about version 1.0, I assumed that nobody would have a problem trusting reMail's secure servers to store and index their email messages for faster searching, and that nobody wanted to download an entire Gmail archive to an iPhone. Wrong, and wrong again. However, version 2.0 of reMail addresses these issues by eliminating the need to ...

Microsoft built a lot of new functionality into Windows Vista's search feature, but what about those of us that are still sticking with our trusty old XP installs? Our default search is a decrepit old fart of a program, and one that still resembles the version from a decade ago. Well, it's time for a change. Two great freeware programs do the job much better, so why keep dealing with a slow, ...

Microsoft threw a curve ball to PC users who have spent the last five years getting to know the ins and outs of Windows XP. Windows Vista promised enhanced security, new and improved graphics, and a redesigned start menu and file explorer. But Vista also suffers from backward compatibility problems and some design changes that seem to value flash over function. Is it worth upgrading your ...