I’ve been pretty busy lately, but I had to write about a very cool new feature in Leopard.  A feature that I pioneered the discovery of and am here to present to you today.

Spotlight now searches the text of every web page saved in your Safari history folder.  I first read this in Apple’s list of 300 features, but when I had finally installed Leopard, had forgotten about.  Just now, however, I was reading Andy Ihnatko’s latest piece in MacWorld where he writes:

[Spotlight] indexes the pages you’ve viewed in Safari, so when you do a Spotlight search on “awesome life-size X-wing model rocket” the number-one result will take you to a bookmark file in Safari’s “History” folder

Immediately after reading that I thought, wouldn’t it be crazy if I entered awesome life-size X-wing model rocket in Spotlight and it found Andy’s article?

It did.  And it was incredible.  The very web page I was on had been scanned and indexed for Spotlight the second I opened it, making it instantly searchable through Spotlight.  This is what Andy is referring to when he says [Leopard] is a game of inches. (via Default Site Weblog)