A new slant on Desktop Search: search engine and disk drive united

For those who demanded an English posting when I wrote my last blog entry here´s a link you can follow to explore Suchwerk - an interessting tool which somewhat combines Google´s desktop search and Windows Explorer´s file search. Suchwerk (German, could be translated to something like "search factory") is a virtual drive which allows you to organize file in a virtual hierarchy of folders. The folders contents are dynamic and you don´t need to explicitly put files into them. It´s done automatically by Suchwerk according to a query you implicitly specify by creating the folder hierarchy.

A quite interesting technology, I´d say. Somewhat reminds me of WinFS. However, Suchwerk is still concerned with files and not entities like contacts, tasks etc. But maybe this is going to change... I will meet with the creator of Suchwerk sometime later this month and we´re going to explore how Suchwerk can be further developed. Stay tuned...