Search.

So last night I was looking for a file on my Mac, it's the main computer I use at home. I also have this networked to a PC which I use for some games and storage. I knew this file could either be on my Mac or my PC, so I used Apple's Spotlight feature to search for it, and in a matter of seconds it brought back a series of results including the one I was after. That's seconds.

Now this morning at work, I was looking for a file again, here we use Windows XP. I knew a keyword that would be in the document that would seriously narrow it down and that it was a Word document. I entered the search attributes, told it search My Computer as it could be on my local HDD or on the network. It's still searching for it after 15 minutes, it's sat behind my browser quietly wirring away to itself, and it's found 4 files, non of them right. Of course in those 15 minutes, whilst waiting to find it, I've since remembered where the file is and opened it myself, it was on my local C drive, why it doesn't search it first I'll never know. Microsoft Search in Windows is not good, and we have to wait until 2007 now for an improved version in Windows Vista, Pah!

30 Minutes into the search and it's now found 7 files, two of which are in the same directory of the one I was after, but it's decided to go off and look at other folders somewhere else now.