Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Desktop search engine feature fight-out

If, like me you are completely disorganised with your files on your machine (and possibly even at work where you can account for your approach to filing, but can't exactly figure why everyone else isn't as methodical or disciplined as your fine self!) then you really would benefit from a desktop search engine. I have tried a few of these (and I dread to think how much space is currently being used up on my machine for index catalogs!) and thought that it was about time I put together a bit of a features/function checklist for these tools and share it with everyone.












Browser-Based Results

Desktop Toolbar

Custom Locations

Network

Web

E-Mail

Advanced Queries

Release

Google               BETA
MSN Search               BETA
X1               RELEASE
Yahoo               Not available
Copernic               RELEASE
Blinkx               RELEASE
AskJeeves               Can't
find yet!

This list is still in progress and I will hope to add to it with more detail and ratings soon... keep 'em peeled!