A closer look at MSN Desktop Search
Hmmm. I may have to take a closer look at MSN Desktop Search based on Michael Sippey’s updated review:
A couple of months back I posted a shoot-from-the-hip review of MSN’s Desktop Search beta. I’m here to recant. Eat my words. Take it all back. Because I now love the thing.
Lots of great hands-on suggestions for tweaking the interface so it’s more useful and productive, too.
(Via FirstAdopter.com.)
I initally loved how MSN performed mathematical expressions better than Google, but this is truly impressive. That one can tweak it is also cool. As several have mentioned on their blogs along with Michael Sippey, just type @ and it will list its shortcuts. And to add any, just start with the @ symbol, your shortcut letter or word, following the by link. You can also launch apps through it, too. I added the following Google shortcuts immediately:
@d,http://www.google.com/search?q=define:%s (Google Define);
@g,http://www.google.com/search?q=%s (Google Search); and
@gg,http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s&hl=en&safe=off&scoring=d (Google [news]Groups)