
%         Registration              Beagle: Free and Open Desktop Search      
%  [2]Register/Submit Proposal Jon Trowbridge (trow@novell.com)               

I will be discussing Beagle, a desktop search  
system that is currently being developed by    
Novell. It acts as a search aggregator,        
providing a simple API for simultaneously      
querying multiple data sources. Pluggable      
backends do the actual searching while Beagle  
handles the details, such as consolidating and 
ranking the hits and passing them back to      
client applications. Beagle includes a core    
set of backends that build full-text indexes   
of your personal data, allowing you to         
efficiently search your files, e-mail,         
contacts, calendar, IM logs, notes and web     
history. These indexes are updated in real     
time to ensure that any search results will    
always reflect the current state of your data. 


