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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 04, 2007
- Total Downloads: 88,282
- Downloads last week: 479
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 133 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo aren't the only ones bringing more search power to consumer desktops. Copernic's Desktop Search tool makes it fast and easy to find documents, e-mails, and other files on local drives. Like other desktop search tools, it creates a searchable index of all the data on a computer's drives, and updates it every time a file is added, removed, or modified.
A left-side search column allows simple keyword queries and more refined searches based on file size, date, file type, or folder. Easy-to-read icons at the top of the screen let you limit searches by category, such as stored HTML pages, e-mail, and videos. The program is lightning-quick, displaying results as fast as you can type.
We especially like the Copernic Deskbar, a search window that appears in the Windows Taskbar and makes quick queries very handy. However, we would like an image viewer, and we wish the application's PowerPoint viewer could display graphics. Copernic comes with optional search toolbars for Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Overall, Copernic offers an efficient way to search your PC, especially for multiple or large hard drives.
Publisher's description
From Copernic :Copernic Desktop Search brings a search engine right to your PC and allows you to instantly search files, e-mails, and e-mail attachments stored anywhere on your PC hard drive. The application executes subsecond searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, all popular music, picture, and video formats, contacts, the browser history, and Favorites. It features a seamlessly integrated previewer that instantly provides you with a view of the file or e-mail you're looking for. The previewer highlights all search terms and automatically scrolls to the first use of these terms in a document, eliminating the frustration of having to sort through endless text to pinpoint specific words.
Version 2.2 build improves Clear index and reindex all feature.
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Version 2.2 build improves Clear index and reindex all feature.
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User reviews of Copernic Desktop Search 2.2 build 32
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 133 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.2 build 32
Cons: Not as good as Google Desktop, which is also free and doesn't claim to be going to insert ads.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.2 build 32
Pros: Pro: Beautiful and for the most part, intuitive interface. Real professional, no cartoony icons or buttons. Your basic 3 panel Browser-type interface. You'll want to get something in that Preview panel right away, because it is a lot of empty screen until you do. The indexing was actually one of the fastest progs I've ever seen. Ripped lightning fast through 30,000 files. Listen people-- indexing is here to stay. You just have to do it at night or whenever you sleep and have some patience. The next morning you have a lightning fast command-line search engine which gets more intuitive as you use it.
Cons: Con: Well, the search parameters were somewhat limited. Check out Ace File Search's multiple search fields, using "And/Or/Not". Remember those from the Browser Wars before Google? Copernic-- add those options as well as "More/Less Like" and you have transcended Google. Seriously, it wouldn't be that hard. It took awhile for me to figure out how to get it to search a series of massive files deep buried on my drive, but once I did it went to town.
This is much better than Google Desktop, which only shows 10 hits at a time. Copernic showed 26,000 all at once, and unlike many proggies I've used (including Microsoft) it was very stable in lightning fast scrolling to any point on the huge list. Word highlighting is cool and the Preview panel is one of the best I've ever used, a sheer joy to use.
Obviously Copernic is positioning themselves as a research suite company. So keep going with it-- right-click search/find within any document/file/folder/application/website etc. Incorporate the best File Searcher, periodically updated not unlike Virus suites as there are many hundreds of file types now. Then build a good research assistent. You know you want to-- c'mon, a prog that "summarizes" a document? Who knows, mabe next you'll be indexing the entire web and giving Google a run for their $$$.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.2 build 32
Pros: I cant seem to find another program that can search text in PDF's as well as Tif/tiff files, and this one is free! It did have some problems in the past with hanging but I have yet to see them on this version.
Cons: Worries me about hanging up the computer with a QX9650 processor? Has to be a bug. This version get s 5 from me.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.2 build 32
Pros: it's cool how the search works
Cons: it's nothing i havent seen before, and the things i've seen have been better. the index takes forever, i had no patience for it. it's fine, it works for what it is, but i've seen much better
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Copernic Desktop Search 2.2 build 32
"Best indexing yet (impressive and recommended)"
Pros: Great interface, very fast (essentially instant) display of hits when typing search terms (preferred by me), does not hog CPU as much as other indexing programs I have tried (e.g., Microsoft), at least with an old P4-2GHz with 1.5 GB PC3200 RAM. No problems so far after 3 days use.
Cons: In an ideal world, all indexing software would consume minimal CPU time but this is the best I have found so far.
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