[MKSearch-dev] Future directions

[Phil Shaw]

On 10 Nov 2005, at 11:30, Chris Croome wrote:

> That would be cool, I'm not sure of the need to be able to index a
> file system, I think OS specific tools is probably the way to go for
> this, but if you want to add support for this I wouldn't object...

Yes, perhaps not a high priority, there are specialist tools that do 
this sort of thing. One benefit in an intranet environment is that you 
could index and search your disk, shared volumes on the local 
network, intranet sites and Web sites from a single interface.

> Being able to get the metadata from file formats other than xml/html
> ones would be good, there is also the metadata in jpegs.

If you have any references on that, please add them to the future 
directions page.
 
> > The query/results system is designed so that results can be cached
> > server side for improved performance.
> 
> Sounds good :-)

Designed that way, but not implemented yet!

Best regards,

Phil

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