Not much has really happened in February that was worth blogging about. Nothing, that is, except for the Importance of Desktop Search to the Masses. For those that don't know, Desktop Search is the single most important invention in human history.
Prior to this amazing mathematical discovery, everybody's documents were stored on the internet with an index on their desktop to say where on their drive the documents first sector was located. This meant that whenever a user wanted to look for something in one of their documents they had to authenticate with the internet to download their RAM to the CPU, for every single file. This could take a long time with a lot of documents but because it was only 1995 nobody had had much time to write that many, so it was not an issue.
Now in 200345678, the year of the Linux Desktop, people have been making documents for a good ten or twenty years, so they have lots of them, and the old way of searching for them has got really slow. This is where desktop search comes in - instead of searching the internet, desktop search searches the desktop, so when you want to download one of your documents the search doesn't take as long as it would have in 1995 had you had more than a handful of documents. All the user has to do is move all their files onto their desktop and click search.
Lots of companies have tried to cash in on this - Apple created the Google Desktop, Yahoo created the Microsoft Finder, Astalavista created Windows Sideshow, and now there's a new contender set to rule them all. Sillicone Valley upstart SpectatorSwarm has created The Daily WTF, which stands for "Where's The Files?" This new product speeds things up a little because instead of pasting all the files into one big file and greppling it, it actually builds an index of all the files like on the internet.
And fortunately someone on Digg tells us how you can read all about it. No post will go unanswered!
"ANSWER! MY! F******! POST!"
"No, it isn't."
"Now I am confused."
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