tongersdei 2 septimber 2004
Advanced Indexing iii
After having tried HotBot’s toolbar and Blinkx to no avail, I’ve finally come accross a free tool that will index my hard disks usefully.
May I happilly refer you to: Copernic’s desktop search for Windows. Granted, it takes some time before those big modern hard disks have been indexed. But it works.
And it has a preview screen. And it doesn’t need a browser. And it recognizes rtf’s.
Have you realized the shortcomings of Copernic, too, though??? In my experience it’s not as fantastic as you make out. Unlike Blinkx, Copernic can’t do conceptual search, it relies simply on keywords and therefore results aren’t exactly brilliant. It also depends on language and if you type a query in Dutch or French or whatever, it will get thoroughly confused. If you use the preview screen you have to click a million times to view results, whereas blinkx provides you a nice neat little summary with every suggested link.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know my thoughts about that.
Jack
skreau Jacko, op freed 3 septimber 2004 op 16:51
Sure, Blinkx may have more future. But right now it doesn’t index rtf’s, and I have two decades of professional writing in rtf. For now, being able to search them on keywords only already is a major step forward.
skreau eamelje, op freed 3 septimber 2004 op 19:00