Searchopia IE for Windows

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Developer’s Description

By Sunrizen Software

Search for texts with words and phrases using the logical boolean operators.

Searchopia is amazingly fast for a non-indexing text search utility. Plus, it doesn't waste disk space or processor time creating an index. Searchopia looks at the actual contents of files for words and phrases using the logical boolean operators And, Or, Not, and Near (proximity searches). Case sensitivity and whole word searches are optional. Files can also be found by size, dates, and file names. Search an entire system with multiple network drives and folders or a single file. Infosurfing is a breeze with Searchopia's flexible user interface that allows for quick, successive searches of results. Version 5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Searchopia IE for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: March 1, 2006

Latest update: August 24, 2015

Version: 5

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 98
Windows 95
Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

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Total Downloads: 1,823

Downloads Last Week: 0

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5/5

4 User Votes

Stunningly quick, light, very functional program!
June 30, 2010
Pros
I have easily 30,000 documents to search through. Windows does a really shoddy job finding the search criteria, but Searchopia whizzed right through and found every single instance. Where Windows would take 10-20 min., this was about 3 min.
Cons
There are things I'd like to see added to this program (see below), but none I could say are a "con".
Summary
This is just an excellent little program that blows Windows search engine out of the water. Its small, efficient, accurate, and does what I need it to do. I'm rarely this excited about a program... it just solves a major problem for me! Half the time when I do a search with Windows XP, its so overwhelmed, it gets stuck and comes up with absolutely nothing. Close all programs, shut down the computer, let it cool off, restart, try the search again. Also Windows Search restarts the search all the freakin' time taking up valuable computer resources and slowing everything else down, sometimes to a crawl. Searchopia easily and quickly searched through many thousands of documents, came up with every instance of my search criteria in a simple clear display. If you click on a document, it shows in the bottom half of the window... although not all types of files display (ex: htm, html, doc, rtf, txt all displayed, but pdf did not). It didn't play media files, but you can easily play, for instance, an mp3 file by right clicking and choosing "launch." Also, unlike Windows, you can save your search criteria and files found... WOW!!! Can't tell you how many times I wished I could do that with Windows search. After you've searched, you can further refine your criteria. You can open another search window, drag and drop files. This was all clear and easy to understand within the first few minutes of first using the program. I'd like to see the following: You can easily select specific folders to search, but I would have liked the ability to EXCLUDE certain subfolders within those chosen folders. "Search subfolders" should be default, instead of having to check it. A "New Search" button, resetting all criteria to default values.
excellent search engine
September 12, 2004
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Summary
Searchopia is an excellent program ! It is small and fast and has advanced search features like "Any Word Near" and Partial Word Find that some of the bigger, more-expensive indexing search engines don't have. This is invaluable when you are looking for a quote and can only remember the general idea but not the exact wording (if you could remember the exact wording you probably wouldn't need to look it up !) It has a handy preview function from which you can copy & paste without actually opening the original document. Just one glitch : it's not compatible with Word97, or more accurately, it needs a higher version in order to search for text within Word documents. (There's no problem with TXT or HTML). The author, who very courteously replied to several support questions, assures me it works fine with the 2000 and 2002 versions, but this really ought to be listed with the requirements.
Have used it and loved it for years
September 15, 2003
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Summary
Some years ago I was trying to convert an old DOS program so that I could use it in Windows. Basically, I had a lot of information that the program had permitted you to enter in a non-structured format and retrieve it easily. In trying to make the very large document work in Windows, I tried several products that seemed to offer a solution. The one that worked best, by far, was Searchopia working with a huge Word document. It found whatever I was looking for in a flash. I could enter a couple of words (I had chosen the 'proximity' paramater) and it would find every instance. I'd continue searching by clicking on the button that chose the next instance. It has worked very well and continues to enable me to enter information casually in that Word document and retrieve it quickly. I do believe that the earlier product I used in DOS was called 'MemoryMate'. Searchopia made all that info continue to be useful.
Makes information retrieval easy by highlighting all the matching text.
September 11, 2003
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Summary
More Features: * Views as well as edits files. * Views HTML documents with graphics. * Remembers the folders and file types that you like to search. * Saves search criteria and the list of found files. * Filenames can be copied to the clipboard and then printed. * Copy, move, rename and delete files for more efficient searches