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10.4: Phrase searching using Spotlight and Python
Spotlight's inability to search for phrases isn't just a "serious problem" -- it all but destroys its usefulness for anyone with a large number of files to search (I have more than 15 years' worth of personal files on my computer).
10.4: Phrase searching using Spotlight and Python
Google Desktop Search definitely will search for exact phrases. Just add quote marks. However, this is often unnecessary, since even an "unquoted" phrase will produce a result list sorted by relevance, and the document with the text that most closely matches the complete phrase will appear on the top of the list. Furthermore, GDS provides a line of text showing the search terms in the context in which they appear in the document, something I've never seen Spotlight do. This is very helpful to me. Lastly, GDS is much faster than Spotlight on my system. I've had none of the slowdowns reported by others. (But I do have a quad 3.0Ghz MacPro.) |
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