MSN Toolbar Suite Beta....

The great team at Microsoft that invited me to be part of the MSN Search Champs just released their Beta for Desktop Search. You can get a copy here and read all about it here, and I am sure the blogosphere is going to be all over it.

I have been using it for about 10 days. I had a couple of problems with the first couple builds, but the team immediately responded to my issues, and made some subtle changes, and it is working great.

I have a ThinkPad T-41, and it took me a couple of hours to index everything, but once my drive was fully indexed it has been terrific.

What I think is striking is the UI, and how much broader the search features are.

I have been a huge fan of Lookout, and I think this is a huge improvement over Lookout, and huge only in that it reflects the core ideas that Lookout built, and expanded them as only Microsoft can.

I wish the Search team every success, as I am thrilled to have been a small part, trilled with their reaction to our comments, and as a garden variety user, excited about the functionality that this brings to me to use every day.

I had requested some programming help so that we could build an ActiveWords agent for this tool, and I got it last night, our programmers have it, so stay tuned, and maybe we can build a great agent that will make the MSN Toolbar Suite available anywhere!

 

Comments

[Robert Scoble]

Buzz, check out the videos of the MSN Desktop Suite team at http://channel9.msdn.com

[Jason]

Buzz, your trackbacks don't appear to be working (of course the problem could be between the chair and the monitor on my end) but I referenced this post at http://www.jasonclarke.net/archives/2004/12/13/msn-desktop-search-beta/

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