From: "Frank Haber" 

I agree.  There's something disconnected in the heads of those who design
search utils these days.  Cases in point:

o The two options in XP's alpha sort, "classic" and
"intuitive collation." This just creates confusion for those
whose minds are tuned to a standard ASCII sort.  I vote for less fiddling. 
Nothing's intuitive.  Tradition counts.  Heck, people had to be told where
to find names beginning with "Mc" and "Mac" in 1920,
when phone books first became common.  Find something that works, and
*teach it.* At least offer a UI flag to signal that the registry toggle has
been set back to Classic.  Otherwise, you waste time searching a mixed bag
of machines.

o Hiding of certain filetypes in XP.  Slippery slope, that.  Once you don't
trust a find, you don't trust a lot of things.

o One for the Mac - the filename search in Tiger is now considerably
*worse* than in 10.3.

o Google Desktop - searches only some few filetypes.  Searches only 1500
bytes into a textfile!  Seems to me that STAIRS had full inverted indices
in 1975.

I think it's all a plot, like a White House press conference, carefully
designed to rot our brains.  If you can't find it, you're destined to
repeat yourself.

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