Spotlight

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Spotlight

Spotlight has no connection with the web. Only long lost files on the
users computer. Google supposedly has a free windows program that can
search your hard drive like Apples spotlight, as well as searching the
web. Maybe so but I don't see why Spotlight was not set up to search
saved web pages also.

People were probably afraid that if spotlight can search the web, maybe
the web could search Spotlight. This is probably why we have to
additionally save web pages we want to search as pdf files. In that
way all of the web links are probably stripped off. Any ideas why they
will not let you search the content of saved web pages with Spotlight?

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In article <1115965290.965271.197370@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
"-oo0-GoldTrader-0oo-" <nomads_05@yahoo.com> wrote:

> People were probably afraid that if spotlight can search the web, maybe
> the web could search Spotlight. This is probably why we have to
> additionally save web pages we want to search as pdf files. In that
> way all of the web links are probably stripped off. Any ideas why they
> will not let you search the content of saved web pages with Spotlight?

Wait, do you mean pages that are actually saved as webarchive documents
to the local drive? Seems to on my machine.

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In article <csma-AA2DF6.01214513052005@news.uswest.net>,
Oxford <csma@mac.com> wrote:

> "-oo0-GoldTrader-0oo-" <nomads_05@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Spotlight
> >
> > Spotlight has no connection with the web. Only long lost files on the
> > users computer. Google supposedly has a free windows program that can
> > search your hard drive like Apples spotlight, as well as searching the
> > web. Maybe so but I don't see why Spotlight was not set up to search
> > saved web pages also.
> >
> > People were probably afraid that if spotlight can search the web, maybe
> > the web could search Spotlight. This is probably why we have to
> > additionally save web pages we want to search as pdf files. In that
> > way all of the web links are probably stripped off. Any ideas why they
> > will not let you search the content of saved web pages with Spotlight?
>
> that is incorrect. in safari you can save a site or just a single page
> as a "web archive" and spotlight will automatically index it.

It would be nice if it also searched your history, though. It wouldn't
be that hard for Apple to make Safari keep copies of recently visited
pages, that Spotlight could index.

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In article <lcCdnWqKCZ6mixjfRVn-ig@taconic.net>,
Tony Lawrence <foo@pcunix.com> wrote:
> Spotlight needs work.. it shouldn't have hard coded exclusions, and it
> should do rudimentary tests to determine files it can index. Right now,
> it will completely miss an ordinary text file that isn't named
> "correctly" (see http://aplawrence.com/Words2005/2005_05_07.html ).

So far the one that has most annoyed me is that it skips files whose
name starts with ".". I hope they change it to allow including those.

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--Tim Smith