Windows Desktop Search API Released
With no official announcement, Microsoft has put out the Windows Desktop Search API to allow developers to build it into their applications. There’s a good roundup on Channel 9, and even a command line interface. Jonathon Hardwick spotted it, and he seems pretty excited.
I’m glad to see all these APIs out there (Google also has one), and while we are seeing some nice plugins, I’m surprised that we aren’t seeing major software building hooks into these programs. I think its a combination of two factors: 1) None of these programs have caught on or taken a large market share and 2) They’re waiting for a standardized API. Well, if I were building desktop search hooks into my app and I had to ick just one, I’d go with Windows Desktop Search, since its API is likely to be related to whatever Longhorn uses.
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Pingback by Cyberwalker blog | July 6, 2005
Hi,
I was surprised by this ..
“I’m surprised that we aren’t seeing major software building hooks into these programs”
There are several apps that take Indexing Service to the next level, including AimingTech’s fast file search and CISearch.Net (http://www.mltek.co.uk/cisearch.aspx) which is a centralised browser based file search engine built on Indexing Service.
Granted they are based on Indexing service 2.0, but rest assured WDS / Enterprise Search based varients aren’t far away.
It takes time to produce a new version to properly harness the new capabilites in things like WDS… but don’t worry.. it wont be long.
Comment by Mark Laverty | August 2, 2007