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Tarih: Mon, 25 May 2009 13:04:25 -0700 (PDT)

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The OSX search is still far and away the better search tool on the
mac. Google's Quick Search could be better if you brought it up to the
same standard as Apple. Let me explain.

I'm looking for Adobe Illustrator files I worked on yesterday. They
were saved as .ai files...
If I search for all files that end with ".ai", I get a total of
155,249 files plus 5 emails, 40 media and 6 others. (I'm a graphic
designer so I tend to have lots on my drive) That means I have to wade
through almost 200,000 files to find the ones I'm looking for.

I can sort the results by partial or exact match to remove those that
were found by content. Exact match only knocks it down to 2,849. That
means I now have almost 3,000 files to wade through. The result still
contains files where ".ai" was found within them.

Then I sort them by date which knocks it down further to 1,032. And
I'm left with 11 pages with over 80 file names to go through. That's
it, no more options. This is what I'm stuck with and I don't have that
kind of time.

If I were able to fully remove files found by content, sort by kind or
filetype and by label, Google Quick Search STILL would not as good as
a Finder search. You would only just be approaching par.

For someone like me, I can't afford to be searching knee-deep through
thousands of files. It's just not practical. When Google Quick Search
can do what OSX does and MORE, I'll consider it a valuable tool. For
now, it goes on the backburner as an anti-productivity tool.

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