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Learn about the codenames Microsoft gives to its products before they are released, such as Windows 2000, codenamed Whistler, and Windows Vista, codenamed Longhorn. Whistler Blackcomb was the codename for Windows XP, named after a ski resort in Canada.
Everything is a freeware desktop search utility for Windows that can rapidly find files and folders by name. It indexes NTFS and ReFS volumes and uses the NTFS change journal to update its index and filter file updates.
A comprehensive list of code names used for computer hardware and software products during development, with some examples and references. Find out the meanings and origins of code names such as Big Sur, Bismillah, and Bulldozer.
Windows Search is a content index and desktop search platform by Microsoft introduced in Windows Vista as a replacement for the previous Indexing Service. It enables queries across files and non-file items in the Windows Shell and in compatible applications, and supports incremental search, property handlers, and protocol handlers.
A comprehensive and updated list of various types of search engines, including web search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and vertical market websites. Find out the name, language, backend ownership, and geographic location of each search engine.
Microsoft Bing is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft since 2009. It offers web, video, image, and map search products, and powers Yahoo! Search. Learn about its history, features, and market share.
Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, written in Java and supported by the Apache Software Foundation. It is widely used as a foundation for production search applications and has many extensions and projects, such as Apache Solr, Elasticsearch and MongoDB Atlas Search.
Desktop search engines enable users to quickly search all of their local files, such as documents, contacts, pictures, and movies; typically also email messages.They find content faster and more thoroughly than browsing and/or searching file-folders for files (by name), opening likely files, and then searching within them.