Re: Off Topic: X1, Copernic and other indexers

[Jukka-Pekka Takala <jtakala>]

Barrie Fairley wrote of X1/Yahoo desktop search:

> > I had this on my computer for a few weeks and, although it was very
> > intriguing at first, I ended up uninstalling it. It just tied up too much
> > computer resource - appreciably slowing a pretty solid system.


My experience is exactly the same. I tried X1 for the first time maybe
some 18 months ago and Yahoo Desktop Search some months ago and
uninstalled both for the same reason as Barrie. If there are ways to
tame it (so as to make it less aggressive in updating its index &
whatever else it insists on doing), I did not find them. Otherwise the
program(s) worked pretty well.

My current favorite is Copernic (free), though sometimes I check
something with Enfish find (paid some $30 a couple of years ago). I've
also checked Google Desktop Search every now and then. For most of my
purposes, Copernic is still superior. With Copernic it is simple to
limit your searches to specific types of files (and you can also tell it
what extensions to search, e.g., *.rtf or *.nb), to specific dates, file
sizes and folders; with Google DTS you cannot (at least I couldn't
find). Copernic also finds partial words, which is functionally the same
as using wildcards in Orbis; it is a practical necessity for
comprehensive searchers in agglutinative languages. Google DTS only
recognizes whole words. You can, however, set Copernic to find whole
words only.

j-p takala