Customize Search in Windows 7

January 18, 2009

We have Windows 7 running on a wee netbook. When a reader sent us a link to this ZDNet blog post “Windows 7: Search Your University Library from Your Desktop” here, we took a look. In the shifting sands of search, Windows 7 may become more of a factor. Early reports are mostly positive, even if some people call it Vista, Version 2. Google has its eye on university search as well. Check out the company’s Book Search and you can see that the GOOG wants to put for fee library research services between a hard place and the incisors of Googzilla. Don’t believe me. Here’s the future of periodical indexes.

Back to the ZDNet article by Zack Whittaker who said he wears pink socks and attends the University of Kent. Whatever his inspiration, his write up was quite useful. He provides a template that can be used to aim Windows 7 search at a specific resource. The idea is to search “Your university library” or some other specified resource. Mr. Whittaker provides a template and links to other resources.

If Microsoft were to make this type of customizing a point-and-click service, there might be some pushback for the GOOG if Windows 7 gets more lift than Vista. A happy quack to the reader who alerted us to Mr. Whittaker’s write up and two quacks to Mr. Whittaker (pink socks and other accoutrements) as well.

Stephen Arnold, January 18, 2009

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Enterprise, Microsoft, News, Search

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.