Debian Admin posted an article about Desktop Search Engine with Doodle in Debian
Doodle is a tool to quickly search the documents on a computer. Doodle builds an index using meta-data contained in the documents and allows fast searches on the resulting database. Doodle uses libextractor to support obtaining meta-data from various file-formats. The database used by doodle is a suffix tree, resulting in fast lookups.Desktop Search Engine with Doodle in Debian
