There's another advantage to a desktop search engine: it can know
about different file formats. Suppose you want to find everything
which references New York City. If you want to use "traditional" find
+ grep + locate, you will have to throw "file" in the mix plus
specialized "grep" to deal with pdfs, jpegs, mp3s, and all sorts of
other files which plain text grep is no use on. That's not to say
that the DSE isn't doing the same, but it's all part of one package.
With the "traditional" tools, you have to handle all the typing yourself.
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