Baidu has launched its newest disk search, i.e. version 2.7. It is a software that works similarly to the Google, or Windows, or Yahoo! desktop search. My sense is that almost every popular search engines have their own versions of desktop search. The Baidu Disk was designed for the purpose to helps its customers to find anything on their computers. Once a user download and run the software, it will indexes the files on the users’ PC and enabled the users to search via an interface. When I observed the product development of this disk search at Baidu, their product development cycle is pretty fast at Baidu as you can see, they have just launched the version of 2.6 in the beginning of this month, and they now have released this newest version.

As stated on the Baidu Disk help page (in Mandarin), the users do not need to uninstall the old version before downloading this newest version. In other words, this version 2.7 will overwrite the previous version. In addition, Baidu has also added the three new features that will enhance the user-experience of its users. First of all, a user is allowed to speed-search anything on his/her PC by using the special keyboard shortcuts. Secondly, Baidu Disk has created a special function that enabled its users to categorize the search results based on the file format and the time when the file is created. Lastly, if the user has installed Microsoft Office 2007 in his/her PC, this Baidu Disk will helps in searching the files or documents that carry with the docx、xlsx、pptx extensions.

My sense is that this type of desktop search or Baidu called it Baidu Disk, is not a software that should be categorized as a “must have” in the Web community. However, if a user meet his/her need by using this software, I believe he/she will be very satisfied.