Can't Find Perfect Search Utility
Fred: It might be useful to your subscribers to mention desktop search programs. I have tried three (Google, Microsoft, Copernic) and found all to be flawed. Is there a perfect one out there? Google is cluttered and keeps pushing you to the Google search screen but it does locate everything on the computer. It does not index it so well, though, I guess because it does not have the underlying cross-references the Web search engine uses. Microsoft was polite, fast and well organized, but it ignored non-Microsoft files like WordPerfect and Thunderbird (the plug-ins they offer do NOT work). Copernic was non-intrusive and organized things well, but it missed a lot. Unpredictably it would find some E-mails from Thunderbird and not others; some documents and not others. My two cents. A loyal subscriber, ---Paul DeLeeuw
Is there a perfect desktop indexed search utility?
Probably not. But you might give X1 a try (
http://www.x1.com/download/ ). X1 is
very fast and accurate, and is easy to use. It indexes e-mail, including
attachments, and is configurable to maximize accuracy and minimize index file
size. It places optional launch bars in Outlook or on the Windows Taskbar.
Of course, one way to cover all your bases would be to have multiple indexed
search utilities installed, and just pick the right tool for the job depending
on what you're looking for. The downside of this approach, of course, is that
those index files grow and grow--- sometimes to massive proportions. But if you
have dozens of gigabytes to spare, why not?
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