Re: My Personal Google: I need a search tool for local PC

foodman wrote:

hi all,

thanx for a good advice, I've tried both sowsoft.com and
searchgun.com
- realy nice pieces of software, but the tools can hardly be
classified as smth like Personal Google's search, they are rather
scanners of the conventional Windows-search type... It's not a
problem
of course for relatively small amounts of data not exceeding, say,
one
gigabyte, otherwise one has to wait 15 min to process every single
query.

My another trial was the above mentioned diskmeta.com: I'd say it's
more fit for large data volumes. It builds an index in few minutes
and
then finds every query _immediately_ and very accurate, even for
complex requests. Besides, it works correctly with most of
wide-spread
text formats and archives.

Nothing is perfect, some things are just less imperfect than other

Hey, John here.

Just wanted to let you know about another thing you could try. Have you
had a look at www.blinkx.com????
It's a cool new tool that sits on your desktop and it's free to
download!!!! Who wants to waste money on something like X1, which is
rubbish by the way, when you can have blinkx???
You can use it to search the internet and internal documents in all
kinds of formats. What is even better is that it finds links to related
documents. So if you are looking at a news website for example, it
automatically brings up related links for you, without you having to
type in a word. I totally love it!!! You should try!!