FindItDesktop Search Engine

Asif S Kalam | Renjith S | Vijith V Daniel

Searching

• Finding info out there.

• Web searches, database searches, file searches etc.

• Search Engines.

• Search Algorithms.

FindIt

• Searches your local hard disk – Like Google Desktop does.

• Search inside a number of file formats – TXT, RTF, DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF and metadata in MP3 files (ID3 tags).

• Boolean searches like AND and + / - possible through queries.

• Indexes files to minimize search times.

User Interface

• Querying through user-friendly interface / console.

• Basic Boolean phrases like AND, symbols like + and – can be parsed.

• User-friendly and clutter-free display of results.

Indexing

• Whole-file searches are painfully time-consuming.

• Indexing – creating a custom haystack before you search for the needle.

• Identifying the most suitable indexing method.

• File-based database features of C++ limits creating and managing an index.

• Have to find out efficient way to perform idle-time indexing.

Other Features

• Save and retrieve searches.

• A rudimentary result ranking system.

• Export results as a formatted text-file / web-page.

This and that

• Advantage over Google Desktop – It doesn’t collect data on you. ;-)

• Roping in advanced querying – time crunch.

• Current status – just the conceptualization.

That’s all, Folks.Thanks for the patience.