Editing Desktop search (section)

====Ubuntu====
[[File:App Lens on Ubuntu 16.04LTS.png|thumb|[[Unity Dash]] search tool in Ubuntu 16.04]]
[[Ubuntu distribution|Ubuntu Linux]] didn't have desktop search until release [[Ubuntu version history#Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)|Feisty Fawn 7.04]]. Using [[Tracker (search software)|Tracker]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2007/07/afirst-look-at-tracker-0-6-0/|title=A first look at Tracker 0.6.0|work=Ars Technica|date=26 July 2007|access-date=24 June 2015}}</ref> desktop search, the desktop search feature was very similar to Mac OS's AppleSearch and Sherlock. It not only featured the basic features of file format sorting and meta-data matching, but support for searching through emails and instant messages was added. In 2014 [[Recoll]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/index.html#RCL.INDEXING|title=Recoll user manual|work=lesbonscomptes.com|access-date=24 June 2015}}</ref> was added to Linux distributions, working with other search programs such as Tracker and [[Beagle (software)|Beagle]] to provide efficient full text search. This greatly increased the types of queries and file types that Linux desktop searches could handle. A major advantage of Recoll is that it allows for greater customization of what is indexed; Recoll will index the entire hard disk by default, but can be made to index only selected directories, omitting directories that will never need to be searched.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive09.linux.com/feature/114283|title=Linux.com|access-date=24 June 2015}}</ref>