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Copernic desktop 2018 search review12/2/2023 Results may be ordered alphabetically or chronologically. The categories under which items are indexed (see the lefthand column and user-friendly toolbar at the top) are Emails, Files, Music, Pictures, Videos, Contacts, Favourites and History. The graphic below is a bit small for all but Unnaturally Advanced Pixel-Discerning ScreenWatchers and Fiercely-Determined Fortuitous Fluke Finders so you may wish to open the real McCoy simultaneously to reading this column ( ). Files are opened in the relevant application simply by double-clicking on the appropriate filename. Possibly the biggest drawcard offered by the latest version is the new improved interface the layout is very similar to email packages and RSS readers in that the folders are displayed on the lefthand side, contents within the highlighted category in the top righthand column and details of the highlighted item below. ![]() Not bad for a program that hasn’t yet been able to complete the indexing phase.ĬDS2 manages to appear in three easily-accessible locations while remaining relatively inconspicuous : as an icon on the Desktop, a search window in the Deskbar (bottom of the screen, righthand-ish side) and as a tiny icon in the Systems Tray (bottom of the screen, very righthand side) from where the full application may be opened. Despite the interruptions, the machine being switched off last night and that I worked through lunch which took another hour off potential indexing-time, a query run a few minutes ago on “OSALL” identified 1 611 items, including Emails, Files, Images and Favourites. The installation process on this occasion was subjected to an unintentional baptism of fire as another application froze my computer completely about four times yesterday morning. Personally I have had absolutely no problem with this ‘restriction’ as results are returned within seconds and I have an admittedly huge wodge of documentation on my hard-drive. An unlimited number of files may be indexed but obviously this will affect the size of the index and the subsequent response time to queries. By default, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, WordPerfect, text, zip and email (Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird) files will be indexed and users can customise the settings to include an additional 150 filetypes (details at Network drives may also be indexed. System requirements include Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/2000 Server/XP/2003 Server Pentium 120 or higher recommended 256 MB.Īfter installation, CDS2 makes use of any idle time that it identifies by monitoring mouse and keyboard activity, to index almost every file on one’s computer. CDS2 requires a minimum of 20MB free diskspace for installation and the developers recommend 250MB for the index. The factor that has remained top of my list of criteria is the impact on the hard-drive in terms of time taken to create the initial index and the space it occupies in the longterm. ![]() However, based on experience gained while undertaking research for an earlier comparative review ( ) and personal experience of the earlier version, these are the reasons I have now installed Copernic Desktop Search 2.0 which was released in March 2007. Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are still, unsurprisingly, among the leaders in this field. A few names have appeared consistently since March 2004 and the time is ripe for users to benefit from the developers’ learning curve during this period. ![]() With the ever-expanding and seemingly infinite amount of electronic information at our disposal it is no wonder that search technology occupies a large part of the developmental sector.Īlthough the Internet search forum is largely dominated by one company at present, the market is more evenly distributed in the field of localised, or desktop, searching.
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