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Re:Taxonomy Is Hard by em500 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:55AM (#33419998)
MacOS and Windows got built in search around 15 years ago. Anything more advanced would be very niche, so there's probably no market left.
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Re:Taxonomy Is Hard by PaulHoule on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @09:36AM (#33421024)
Windows search only finds things sporadically though. I turned off search indexing on my Mac because otherwise I'd have to go out for coffee when I open any application.
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Re:Taxonomy Is Hard by Someone on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:00AM (#33421337)
More like 25 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_8 had it in 1998 (possibly earlier. It isn’t clear to me whether Sherlock became PowerPC native in 8.5 or was new and PowerPC native in 8.5), Windows NT in 1996/2000 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/windows-search-platform/the-e...)
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