Which Desktop Search Have You Used? - Google, MSN, Yahoo!...

have you ever used Desktop search tools? Which one is your faviour? have you ever used Desktop search tools? Which one is your faviour? Which one use more resource? Which one is more accury? which one dose support more file format? Notice from microscopic^earthling: Posts merged.

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I tried google desktop search... AND IT WAS VERY BAD!!!!

That was in it's beta pahse.. but it brought me a lot of pc problems... i have lost faith in desktopo search software...

The best advice you can get: "Be organized from getogo"..

Put everything in specific folder, named after their content... use multilevel folder organization...

This way you won't need a desktopo search software... you be more productive, and you'll get your tasks done faster...

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I just use the Find function.

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I use Google Desktop Search and I don't have much to say about it, only that I prefer the built-in Search function in Windows XP since it seem to provide the results I'm looking for. I only use Google Desktop Search when Windows can't find the file I am looking for (one that I know exists but not sure where is it) but I can't really blame it probably because I disabled the Indexing Service. I compared it with MSN Desktop Search and of course, Google is far off better.

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I use the msn search... or the search embeded in the IE...
and i feel they both sucks...
i think kaaza might work better ...
i have not tried it yet...

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Whilst GDS was in beta, I have to admit it was quite buggy.
Now that Google have actually released it I think its great! I was really worried about the fact that it only searched IE history, but now Google have added Firefox intergration too.

I love the way its so fast compared to windows' built in search. Because it keeps an up-to-date index, you get the results unbelievably quickly.

Also, I think that the integration with the Google homepage is nice feature.

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I'm using Yahoo DS, and I think it's the best so far. I couldn't believe it, but i always get the results that i'm looking for. well, not everytime, but most of the time. I'm happy with it.

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i dont really have any desktop search engines. i dont really fancy having a big rubbish search bar in the way.

so i have google in the browser as the home page.

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I've tried a Desktop Search software only once, long time ago. Can't say I liked it. Not that it was crappy or anything; actually I remember it looked pretty decent. But I discovered that I don't really need it. In all the Operating Systems I used (and I used quite a bit), the built-in search capability was more than enough for me. Seriously, you either need to search for a certain filename or a string of text inside a text file. In both situation, even Windows's FIND does the job adequately. If you use Microsoft Office, there's an option called something like "System Index," that wades through all your files making a permanent database on your hard disk, which is used to quickly find the results you're looking for.

Of course, I realize that not all people are satisified with the built-in search. Personally, I haven't tried it, but I have so much faith in Google that I'd like to hear if someone has used the official (non-Beta) version, and hear what they think about it.

All the best,
Mernokh

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No, I've not yet tried any of these new search bars, the Windows search function is enough for me. Maybe search bars are fatser an better, but I don't trust this kind of software. I don't want my computer to be searched by Google.

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