If you tried Goggle desktop and were disapointed …
If you hated Google’s silly web interface, and the inability to select the results …
If you are worried about the stuff flying around the internet about how Google desktop exposes your private data …
If you’ve been hunting for a free index-based desktop search tool …
Basically, if you just want a better way to find the files you’re looking for on windows, you should try out Copernic Desktop Search.
It builds a database index so that it can do most searches in under a second (it generally looks instant), and it even does previews of any plain text files, as well as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), Adobe’s PDFs, and most of the popular music, picture and video formats (it indexes MP3 ID3 tags, for instance). It can also search your browser history and favorites (even with Firefox), and your email and contacts, if you use Outlook or Outlook Express. Pretty neat stuff. Go get it.
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Thank you for the link, it looks promising. After reading positive review on searchengine watch, I installed it. Does it index outlook email archive as well? I’m using Lookout for searching my email, which I am very satisfied with. I’m going to test if this product is better.
I do believe that it searches your outlook email as well, but I’m not sure (don’t recall)...
As a side note: the MSN Toolbar beta seems to be based on Lookout, but extended to integrate into your desktop (definitely more integrated than Copernic), although I’m not actually sure how good it’s search is, since I’ve not installed it, and I run GeoShell, so it’s desktop integration wouldn’t help me anyway.