Sherlock--Why?

[Charles Martin]

> From: don hinkle <donhinkle at att.net>
>
> I don't understand about Sherlock in X. Does it only search the Web,
> like a Google, and not search for HD files or contents? If it's a 
> Google
> substitute, is it better than Google?

If you're referring to Sherlock 3, then all I can tell you is to 
explore it and the differences between it and Google will become 
OBVIOUS.

Sherlock 3 now only searches the web, but not in the way (and not for 
the same purpose) that Google does. Google is the best at what it does, 
but Sherlock 3 does something else -- something called "web services."

Here's a page that may help explain it better (assuming you cannot just 
try it out yourself):
http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/sherlock.html

In particular, I find the Yellow Pages and Airline Tracking features to 
be INCREDIBLE. And I am told that another program called Watson does 
much the same thing, only more so (and faster) than Sherlock. You can 
have a look at Watson here:

http://karelia.com/watson/

As for hard drive searching, that is now handled right in the finder. 
You just press command-F and Find comes up just like it did in the 
olden days (only much better). You can also have a little search bar in 
every Finder window if you want, very handy.

When Panther comes out, searching should become instantaneous, a 
feature I'm really looking forward to.

_Chas_

The CPU speed wars are over. We won.
http://www.apple.com/powermac/