Windows 7 Search Federation

Long is again at the forefront of discovering new and exciting features that have been packed into the Windows 7 M3 build that was given out last month to a group of professionals. The build quickly made its way on various P2P networks and is now available to a large group of users. Search Federation, or federated search, makes it possible to search remote file repositories. Microsoft did implement the feature with Open Search and RSS2 and Long managed to create a demonstration in a couple of hours.

He managed A Flickr tie in for Windows 7 that he called Flickr Search Connectr. This little tool is compatible with the M3 build and provides access to Flickr images through the native Windows 7 search interface. Users can directly interact with files on Flickr in Windows Explorer to browse and inspect files and even set them as background images.

Flickr is obviously only one example but a better one than Microsoft used to demonstrate the service on the PDC08. Microsoft seems to aim at the business and enterprise market with the feature but since it is part of the Windows Shell it will have an impact on the consumer market as well. Other possibilities that come to mind are Gmail, Google Docs, file hosting, videos, music or wallpapers that can be browsed that way. Basically everything that is proving access to a repository of files.

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