Re: google type of search for a desktop

[Iwan van der Kleyn <debianuser@vanderkleyn.com>]

Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:

>   I am wondering if there is a software which performs google's search 
> on (and only on) the files of a desktop running debian linux? I am 
> aware of utilities such as grep, find, locate etc, but prefer a 
> google's interface. For ex, I can seach for a string, and then click 
> on the link to access the file etc.,

http://estraier.sourceforge.net/

Or you you could try more elaborate document retrieval tools such as 
http://freshmeat.net/projects/docco/

Iwan