UNH Search FAQ:
Sherlock application for Mac OS 8.5.
author and contact: cwis.admin@unh.edu
updated 19-FEB-1999

With Macintosh OS 8.5, Apple includes an application called Sherlock that allows searching both on the local desktop system (by file attributes and by file content) and on the Internet. When used for Internet searching, Sherlock acts as a front end to one or more search engines. It comes with configuration files, called plug-ins, for four of the major search engines: AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, and Lycos. This makes it easy to specify a single search that is then directed to multiple search engines, what is usually called a "metasearch."

CIS is developing Sherlock plug-ins for our UNH Intranet implementation of the Infoseek and Webinator search engines. When ready, the plug-ins will be posted to the Apple-Donuts Sherlock archives for downloading. For more information on the Sherlock technology, see the MacInTouch special report and Apple's plug-in directory.