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Amit Agarwal's Perfect Desktop Search Tool Wishlist

Amit Agarwal posted his wish list for the perfect desktop search tool here:

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2004/10/what-is-missing-in-desktop-search.html

I agree with a lot of what he wrote, though I'm not sure I can think of the business model for a program that's free and doesn't tie into advertising somehow.  What would generate revenue? Support? The only company I could seeing doing "free/no ads" is Microsoft which could include this in a new OS they'd sell.  Or here's an idea: provide the basic search tool sans lots of viewers for free and sell the "loads of file format viewers" version for a reasonable price.   

For what it's worth, I'd be willing to <gasp> *pay* for a tool that did everything Amit outlined. Though I'd also want:

• low use of system resources so that computer performance isn't killed.
  
• smart indexing that doesn't kick off when I in the middle of another long-running task (like recording or converting video, burning a CD/DVD, etc.)

I'll see if I can think of any more "must haves"...