RE: desktop search recommendations

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

I've been using Windows Desktop Search for probably nine months now. In
a work environment with vital information scattered hither and yon, it's
been a huge efficiency boost. I can search either my hard drive and the
network locations I select or the Internet. It doesn't create huge files
or tap a lot of resources. It's very intuitively structured, able to
break out by file types, including e-mail, and extremely fast. The only
really time-consuming point is the first build of the index it uses.
Just for grins, before sending this out, I queried for "desktop search
recommendations" and got 10 hits among 208,000+ documents in a blink --
including your e-mail. Once the initial index is built, it keeps
everything updated on the fly. You can also do advanced searches,
inluding Boolean and date-constrained.  Currently in ver. 3.01 at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx.

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From: techwr-l-bounces+jim -dot- pinkham=voith -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+jim -dot- pinkham=voith -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
Behalf Of Evans, Diane L (Rosetta)
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:55 AM
To: Kevin McLauchlan; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: desktop search recommendations

>Enough people have recommended to me that I install a desktop search
engine,
>that I'm finally considering it. So, which one?

I use X1.  Although the price has fluctuated (Was $35, then free, now
$50) it is well worth the money.  It searches everything, including my
Outlook calendar and my Recycle Bin. You won't believe how fast it is!

http://www.x1.com/products/

Diane Evans
Requirements Analyst
ASQ CSQE
Rosetta Inpharmatics
206-802-6560


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