MSN Desktop Search has been updated: the new name for it is "MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search". I am only interested in the Windows Desktop Search bit.
- Installed it and it says it needs to reindex everything, i.e. it will be offline for a few hours.
- The options page now lets you specify file extensions to be indexed as text files so I have added .py and .pyw.
- The options also let you edit the list of file extensions that are not indexed: now you do not need to hack the registry to search for .exe and .dll files, you just remove them from the list.
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I'm not sure if it did this before but you can specify a different web search engine to MSN. I set it to:
Switching from desktop search results to web search on the same search term it now goes to google.
http://www.google.com/search?q=$w
Conclusion: useful upgrade.
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