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What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
Darwin:
What I really would like to know is what a program like Archivarius, X1, etc. offers that Copernic does not. Since Copernic is free and these others are not, there must be something compelling that makes them worth the money, but I haven't been able to figure that out from the discussion here.
-cyberdiva (December 22, 2008, 10:07 AM)
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Well, this really goes back to my earlier point about the best search engine is the one that works best for you. Ultimately, this is a personal decision. I have used Copernic and like it. However, there are alternatives, such as X1, that I find more intuitive and that have features that I value. If I provided you with a list of those GUI elements and features it would make perfect sense to me, but likely little to you. I'd say that if you are happy with your current setup - Copernic and Mailbag Assistant - stick with it!
Just to note, though, I love X1 because of its ability to preview so many filetypes AND index my Outlook psts. Archivarius is great because it is so quick and light on resources but isn't as powerful WRT either file previewing or pst indexing. At the moment, I use X1 exclusively (though Archivarius and dtSearch are still installed and I update their indices periodically). dtSearch is right in between the two, but ruled out for just about everything because of its shocking price (I wrote to the sales department asking about an academic version/academic licencing and was made a very generous offer, otherwise I wouldn't be running it)! The greatest thing about it is how easy it is to search networked drives and folders - even without it being installed on the target computer. My wife often has trouble finding things on her computer and I have successfully found them for her using dtSearch - it's SLICK. X1 has similar funcitonality but dtSearch does it so easily that I haven't even tried it.
edbro:
I'm straying a bit here but I am going to give Google Desktop another whirl. They came out with a drag/drop upload to Google Docs widget. That, combined with their Gmail widget, makes GDS stand out from the rest.
Lifehacker article
mwang:
For me, Archivarius stands out for its ability to handle text encoding properly most of the time. This is especially true when it comes to email search. Many searchers, including the one by Google as well as email search specialists like MailStore miss a lot when I search for Chinese or Japanese terms in email. Even Archivarius isn't perfect, but it comes the closest at finding them all.
vitali_y:
StopKa desktop search:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=15990.0
vitali_y:
StopKa desktop search - is much better than - Locate32 and Everything for direct search.
StopKa desktop search - can perform index search as Google Desktop Search, Copernic Desktop Search, MSN Windows Desktop Search, Yahoo Desktop Search, X1 Desktop Search, Archivarius.
as i see these are leaders:
Copernic Desktop Search 32 (22.2%)
Locate 31 (21.5%)
i ready to compare / to compete with both of them
Copernic Desktop Search - index search
Locate - direct search
by speed / index size / search results quality
what is else?
if it is intresting - i'll compare and will public unbiassed results here
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