Friday, June 09, 2006

searching...

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I have another gripe about desktop applications. Ok, maybe not a gripe, but a feature that would really make me happy:

In Adobe Acrobat especially, I wish you could search for term XXXX, that appears around term YYYY.

What I'm really asking for is that programs such as Acrobat (or Word, or whatever), have some kind of smart indexing. It seems to me that you could wrangle some sort of identifier of vicinity of two search terms. If the two terms you are searching for have a very close vicinity, you score a hit. I wonder if Google has any level of searching that works in that way.

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