Desktop Search Reviewed
One more thing I forgot to add to my list of favorite tools is Copernic Desktop Search. I have compared it to Windows Desktop Search and Google Desktop Search and I still think Copernic is the best. Though, to be fair, I haven’t tried out Google’s v2 of their desktop search, but that’s still in beta (like most of what Google does) so I’ll have to go back and try that one when it’s released.
Copernic has the best user interface, allowing me to easily search emails, contacts, files, bookmarks, music, browser history, video, and the web. I use Outlook a lot but never use the Outlook search anymore because it’s barely useful when trying to search someone by company or area code or any other field than a contact’s name. The indexing is non-intrusive, search results appear rapidly and I can specify powerful searches for different content types.
One nod to Windows Desktop Search though is that when you download the search tool it comes part of the MSN toolbar, which adds some nice new features to Internet Explorer like tabbed browing (finally) and pop-up blocking and form-fill, all features which made Firefox a popular choice to switch to way back in, oh, say…2002!
