I’ve been trying desktop search utilities for the past year now. I tried them in this order: Copernic, Google, MSN, Google and Copernic — giving each their fair shake.
I’m back to Copernic because I don’t like the way that Google Desktop jumbles all the different filetypes together. I don’t like having to narrow down searches by using “filetype:doc” search commands. The Ctrl-ctrl hotkey for Google is cool — but hotkeys are not that big of a deal for me. The Outlook integration in the Google one is nice, but with Copernic — it’s all in one place. Even though I’m a proud Gmail user, I don’t like having results from my computer displaying in my browser. Just bugs me.
Guess I should try Yahoo Desktop search at some point. It’s gotta be killer to make me switch from Copernic.
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