Much, much better than any I’ve seen until now on the Windows platform.
Copernic — I tried their tool in the late 90s, when it was a desktop version of popular search engines that collated results and categorized them (ala Vivisimo now). It’s one of those things you try and then give up.
But they sure have come a long way since then. If you read this site you know that I’ve tried and tested a bunch of desktop search tools from Google to 80/20 to Isys.
But I have no hesitation in saying that Copernic’s desktop search tool is among the best there is. (Have been pending this entry because I want to include screenshots, but that’ll come later.)
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Have you tried Blinkx? http://www.blinkx.com
Isn’t copernic the one that started google and Microsoft on their desktop search spree?
Vijay, Copernic may have existed before (not in its “Desktop Search” avatar) as did some others like 80-20 Retriever etc, but the whole thing became a big deal when Google took it up as their next goal.
There’s a pretty good match up by Slate:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2111643/#ContinueArticle Shashank
I wish i knew what you where talking about. Windows search finds what I am looking for. Or Yahoo can find stuff. Whats the differance ?
Donnie, Windows search is slow and clunky. Try doing a search in C: drive with a 40GB hard disk. That’s because Windows’s indexing engine is lightyears old.
Now think about how Google and Altavista, the web search engines, can return results for your query in a fraction of a second, especially when millions of other users may be searching for something on their site at the SAME time?
That’s because they maintain “indexes”. Now, with all these desktop search tools, you have that capability on your local PC as well.
Secondly, apart from speed, it’s the convenience. With Copernic or other tools I have a SAME search interface for everything — email, music, PDF files, etc.
HTH, Shashank
Copernic=.>nice
I love Copernic, but after doing a defrag on C where Copernic resides, I always get problems like hanging. Copernic seems to rectify itself but not always. It is a testament to the power of the free utility that I keep re-installing. I hope Copernic can fix its bugs. They seem small.
Robert, I have Executive Software Disk Defragmenter (Pro version) start automatically whenever the screen saver comes on. Copernic works without any glitches despite it. It also works on most friends’ machines with the regular defragmenter shipped with Windows XP. I would suspect you have something else that’s disconcerting your Copernic install. Why not uninstall it altogether, reboot, reinstall afresh? Let it create the entire database afresh.
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