Searchopia IE for Windows

User Reviews

• 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.

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• excellent search engine

  September 12, 2004

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  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.

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• Have used it and loved it for years

  September 15, 2003

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  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.

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• Makes information retrieval easy by highlighting all the matching text.

  September 11, 2003

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  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

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