PHLAT Searching!- Windows Desktop Search UI from MS Research

PHLAT - Intuitive Personal Search

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PHLAT is a new interface for Windows Desktop Search  (enabling search through a user's own email, files, and viewed web pages). PHLAT lets you easily specify queries and filters, attempting to integrate search and browse in one intuitive interface. In addition, Phlat supports a unified tagging (labeling) scheme for organizing personal content across storage systems (files, email, etc.).

Click here to read more about PHLAT and get started using it!

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PHLAT (Prototype for Helpful Lookup and Tagging)  is officially WAY cool. This looks like a must have UI for Windows Desktop Search.

I’ve been thinking about removing WDS for a bit as I didn’t really like its UI and just wasn’t using it much (and I did have time to write my own UI). Well PHLAT has convinced me to keep it around a while longer.

PHLAT MUCH closer to the way I want to be able to search my desktop. It’s the date grouping and interactive nature that I really dig. Enter a broad term and then use PHLAT to sift through the hits, narrowing the hits down, by date, path, file type, etc…

Now I just wish the .Net source were release too…  ;)

If you have WDS, and like playing with new stuff, you owe it to yourself to check this out (can you tell I’m totally digging it?  ;)

(via The Road to Know Where – New FREE Microsoft Phlat Software Add-in for Windows Desktop Search)