Forum : What's the best desktop search today?

I know Google has one, and microsoft got one. are there any other better ones ?

There was a long discussion about this at DonationCoder here. Worth reading through that thread. I myself use Locate 32 as it is simple, need no installation and does what it does well (index files). It can be used together with the FARR plugin for quick access to search.

Google desktop search:  It seems a terrible concept to have your drive indexed on someone else's server (despite all the good people in the world).

Copernic has always been a dog, but that is what I still use until I can replace it with a complete solution.

Everything and neoSearch are new contenders (speed and low impact on resources), but I don't think they search within files (yet?).

Stopka can search direct or build an index, and it searches within files.  The author said it doesn't index email. (don't know if it searches it?)

To search within files is crucial!  There is no perfect file naming system.

Searching email is crucial!  How could it not be?  Further, everyone does not use Outlook.  It is only text, regardless which email program, so lets figure out how to search it.

 Everything, neoSearch, and Stopka seem to be approaching the “Holy Grail” in this space (still not there).  Why has so much R&D on searching the entire ethersphere failed miserably at enabling one to search a finite hard drive for something already “known”?