Zeitgeist and Fulltext Searches
By Natan Yellin on Jun 15, 2009 in Gnome, Zeitgeist
I’ve been thinking about the proper way to handle fulltext searches in Zeitgeist. (E.g. searching through a file’s content instead of just searching for files by name.)
I think the best solution is to fall back to Tracker and other search engines for all text searches. This is especially important if we index things like GMail emails where we can’t possibly handle all searches ourselves without downloading and indexing all emails. (Instead, we would just index each email’s title and sender. If the user performs a search, we would use GMail’s API to find results on the fly.)
On that note, I’m planning on adding Google Documents and Flickr support. This probably wont happen until later this week or the beginning of next week



