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« Last post by yksyks on October 21, 2007, 06:34 AM »
Let me add my brief experience with Exalead one:desktop (EOD) and compare it to Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) -- cons/pros.
No way to add file types to get indexed. For example, there are plain text files with an extension .SUB or .SRT (movie subtitles) that don’t require any complicated parsing, but they are never listed among the results. (CDS can do this.)
No way to move (or rebuild) the entire index on alternate location. It would be useful for some reasons. (CDS can do this.)
The index is not updated as it should be. It updates properly on Outlook, but not on the files. Deleted file remains listed in the results even three days after its removal. Newly created, copied, renamed or downloaded files don’t appear until some change is made in the "Indexed Items" setting or restarting. The Index monitoring just says "up to date". (Performance is set to default. Verified on two PCs running Win XP SP2 with all the latest patches, both with full administrator’s rights.)
Some files with accented characters in theirs filename display "no preview available". They are properly found and listed in results and can be opened normally. But only the same file with accented characters removed can be previewed. The strange fact is that this doesn't apply to Outlook mail attachments; they are all properly displayed regardless of theirs filenames.
The Czech translation made me laugh loud. One can understand that the translator doesn't know the term "regular expression" and translated it as "common expression", which nobody understands. But he mixed up words "within" and "without", so now one of the menu items reads "Search without results". Quite hilarious.
EOD doesn't search as you type, CDS does. Not very useful in CDS, though.
EOD doesn't scroll automatically to position of the first occurrence of the searched term. This is well balanced with its showing the part of the contents with the first occurrence in bold.
EOD doesn't mark multiple searched term with different colors, CDS does and allows individual searching.
On the other hand, EOD can preview even complicated PDFs much better than CDS. There's no need to show the actual layout, if you're searching, the plain text would do.
EOD can index Outlook Calendar and Tasks, CDS cannot.
EOD displays and searches e-mail messages in proper encoding, CDS often doesn't.
EOD can use regular expressions, CDS can't.
I also reported these bugs to Exalead, so far not even the automated response.
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