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Desktop Search Engines Compared

Posted by timothy on from the operating-system-handicapped dept.

nutterButter writes "After Google created a stir with its desktop search engine, other engines gained more awareness in the public eye. Slate did a comparison of them and Google was not their top pick; Copernic was. I tried it - and am quite impressed."

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  1. SHHH!! by spac3manspiff · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dont tell Microsoft or they will get bought.

  2. Re:How neccessary is this for home users? by savagedome · · Score: 3, Funny

    I suppose it would be, but I suspect that most people are at least somewhat organized when it comes to computer files...

    Like this??

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  3. Desktop search unnecessary by Dogtanian · · Score: 4, Funny

    All desktop searches are redundant; well, under Windows at any rate.

    Simply use Google, which will have visited the web server on your compromised Windows PC- the same web server that is sharing everything on your hard drive with the rest of the world.

    I bet those Linux weenies are jealous now.

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  4. oh shit by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny
    GDS indexes the content of all pages as you visit them, making finding them relatively easy

    This is gonna make it really easy for your spouse to figure out what porn sites you visit....

  5. Re:Linux anyone? by eSims · · Score: 2, Funny
    Is it too much to hope someone might build a strong tool for doing this that will run on Linux? Having Copernic rated #1 is wonderful for folks still running Windows, and Google is wonderful for folks still running Windows, and...

    Yeah... sounds like you need a Mac!

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  6. Re:Some GNOME folks look to be working on it. by artemis67 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whoa, whoa, whoa. If you're talking about having your personal information ransacked, then Windows wins again!

  7. Re:How neccessary is this for home users? by justin12345 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I store ALL my data on the DESKTOP in semi-randomly named files (to the point that they all overlap into a seemingly bottomless pit of stacked icons). I NEED a search tool.

    Oh... and does anyone know how to bring your desktop background to the foreground? I can't see the nice green fields anymore ;-)

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  8. Re:Why is desktop search so hot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Yeah, but does Copernic have a cool animated dog leafing through a book? I didn't think so...

  9. Re:Apple's coming out with something like this... by adpowers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, they could call the next version 10.5 Pussy.

  10. Re:Why is desktop search so hot? by cca93014 · · Score: 2, Funny

    In their wisdom MS decided that search should ignore certain file types. Try creating a file that ends in ".java" and search for a string inside that file. Surprised?

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