Poll: Best desktop search software?

[brikis98]

What is your favorite desktop search software?

1. Google Desktop
2. Windows Desktop Search
3. x1
4. Copernic
5. Locate32
6. Yahoo! Desktop
7. Other suggestions?


Please explain WHY you like it and, if you've tried the others, how it's better than them.

 

[n7]

Vista's indexed search makes me very happy.

 

[Rottie]

I tried Google Desktop it slows my pc while it searches 4,000 documents so it is not worth it.

 

[wwswimming]

the beta of Yahoo Desktop Search, by far. Rev. 1.0

the trick is to have it do the indexing when you're not using the computer.

so then the computer can help find the document you're looking for, buried
somewhere in "the big Hairball" (borrowing Marc Andreassen's term for
Windows Explorer.)

i like it because it finds stuff. very quickly. it indexes your hard drives
when you tell it to. then you type in what you're looking for, and it brings
up any file that has that text string anywhere in it or in the file name or
folder name.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: n7
Vista's indexed search makes me very happy.

I don't search much, but I'm with n7. Vista search for me :^)

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: n7
Vista's indexed search makes me very happy.

Another vote here

 

[brikis98]

thanks for the input so far, but please state WHY you prefer some desktop search and if you've tried any others

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: brikis98
thanks for the input so far, but please state WHY you prefer some desktop search and if you've tried any others

I'm not a heavy duty searcher, but I've used Google Desktop before. It worked fine, but I like keeping things "in house" as much as possible. Vista's search works great, and it's seamlessly integrated of course, so that's why I prefer it.

 

[brikis98]

bump

 

[corkyg]

I don't relate to "desktop search." (I know where everything is on my desktop.) For searches inside my PC I prefer Windows built-in search function.

For searches on the Internet, I prefer Google.

Ergo, in the language of the poll, I selected "Other."

 

[loup garou]

Vista search/ OS X Spotlight

 

[brikis98]

one more bump

 

[13Gigatons]

Avafind: simple, fast, lightweight, scout, etc.

 

[MrChad]

I've only used Google Desktop Search and Windows Desktop Search. I prefer WDS because it allows me to access normal Explorer context menus in the search results and it integrates well with Outlook 2007. Google displays results in a browser window, which is close to worthless if you want to do anything other than the default action on the file.