my god, i just wasted two hours reading about spectate swamp desktop search.
i am going to stick with tracker, as it has the capability to index files for me (rather than requiring me to index them manually), and because it runs on my operating system of choice (linux).
sorry swamp, i have evaluated SSDS and rejected it as it contains none of the features that i expect from a desktop search.
what was this i heard about dinosaur skin?