Friday, August 19, 2005

Desktop Search


I am trialling Copernic Desktop Search at the moment. It is taking forever to index - in fact I had to tell it to ignore my computer and index anyway. I did this by changing the index options to index even if my pc was busy and with high priority. I though it was never going to finish oherwise.

It did index the emails flat out - in fact the search there is probably better than Lookout - the Outlook Search Tool I have been using for while now. I will reserve my final judgement on whether it can satisfactorily index the 45.85 Gb of data on my server.

The other desktop search tools out there include Google Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search and Blinkx3. Google I was unhappy with due to its irrelevant results. I have yet to try Blinkx or WDS; magazine reviews I have read don't point to them being the best solution for my needs. What do you use?


Posted by: Jethro | 10:35 AM |