Which desktop search tool is the best?

[hafees]

http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20050504WhichDesktopSearchToolIsTheBest.html

click on the above link and u ll find that Google is at 5th position. But how do u rate? Pls vote

[busyanuj]

Copernic's the best desktop search tool, IMO.

[anandk]

copernics is the better one, i too feel. :)

[NikhilVerma]

I haven't triedn anyone yet...

But copernic sounds cool...

[shwetanshu]

i use BlinkX, chip rated it the best, d/l from here (http://www.blinkx.com/content/mirrors.php)

I tried only google b4 but it cud be used by the user who installed it, i used and old version, dont know if this was rectified in newer versions.

[rajkumar_personal]

GDS for me !!!

[whoopy_whale]

I've used only Copernic and it's quite good.

[ashisharya]

Google Desktop Search is a good one.
http://desktop.google.com/GoogleDesktopSearchSetup.exe

[hafees]

google desktop search is really inferior to copernic but in features rather than performance. copernic has the ability to search with in pdf files, indexing size is smaller (500 MB vs 150 MB in my case), search in many categories etc.

[aadipa]

I don't use any of these, but Locate32 (http://www.uku.fi/~jmhuttun/english/softwares.shtml) does job for me.

[digen]

Yeah Locate32 is the one I use too.Never had the need to look for anything more.Light & fast.
Thanks aadi for letting me know about this earlier.

[khattam_]

AvaFind Professional is the best one......... Low on system and quick on searching.................... It indexes in Real-Time and not like Yahoo in every 30 mins and so............... But it is not free......

I'm using Yahoo at the moment....

[Satissh S]

well actually! I installed yahoo! ,google and msn desktop search and compared the results , the results seem to be exactly the same and all these consume a lot of system resources and if u use them with an antivirus or something like that the pc could well become a bottle neck. I think windows search itself is pretty good and there are a lot of hidden shortcuts that can be used to search fast! almost faster than any other search! but i guess we wud hav to index first. Correct me if im wrong!

[escape7]

Google desktop search is good

[grinning_devil]

no one for me .. everything on my disc is organised in a nice way ... never had the urge to use any of them ..
in cse i do need to search .. XP's inbuilt search does the job!

[khattam_]

no one for me .. everything on my disc is organised in a nice way ... never had the urge to use any of them ..
in cse i do need to search .. XP's inbuilt search does the job!

Really man??
How do you manage that??
I have all my data here and there and always needed a desktop search engine...............

[cyberia.in]

same with me, my stuff's organsied. used to to bad coupla years ago.

anyway, i'd recommend copernic or x1, since they're well tried and tested, especially copernic

[sahil_blues]

i have tried copernic, google, msn, yahoo....found copernic to be the best....msn is also quite good but it takes more system resources....

[Charley]

Copernicus is running well on my sys and happy wit it.

[Ringwraith]

do all these softwares index/hash ur filelist every time?
I personally use something called "Agent Ransack"....i find it pretty fast compared to windows default search!

[sahil_blues]

Copernicus is running well on my sys and happy wit it.

is Copernicus different from Copernic....they sure do sound the same!!!

[goobimama]

Anybody tried apple's "Spotlight"??? That's supposed to kick all these people's azz...

Though, Like that grinning satan guy, I too don't need a desktop search software...I know exactly where everything is....I might find some use for a search tool in real life though....

[Keith Sebastian]

Agent Ransack kicks everyones collective asses to kingdom come. I'm thoroughly impressed by it's speed. get it here -

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx

Happy searching,
Keith

[Charley]

is Copernicus different from Copernic....they sure do sound the same!!!

For you info they are the same......

Cheers

:)

[grinning_devil]

...I might find some use for a search tool in real life though....

wow !!!

that wud be dream come true !!!
i wud tooooo love to have that search assistant!!

[Choto Cheeta]

None of them... as grinni says.... every thing is organised enough to locate....

& mail function of any search tools to index ur HDD.... so in a big HDD (120GB) full of data.... u can imagine how long it will take & this indexing service will slowdown the performance although its should index when u r idle.....

[expertno.1]

my vote goes for the copernic !!

its beter than those google and msn and yahoo wallas