گوگل قطعا اولین شرکتی نیست که برای جستجوی پروندهای شخصی محصول نرم افزاری ارائه کرده است.شرکت Corpernic که نرم افزار جستجوی وب آن سالهاست که مورد استفاده است به تازگی اقدام به معرفی نرم افزار جستجو در کامپیوترهای شخصی کرده است. این محصول Copernic Desktop search نام دارد و همانند محصول جدید شرکت گوگل امکان جستجوی پرونده ها و ایمیلها را دارد.این محصول نیز همچون ایندکس سرور مایکروسافت و یا محصول جستجوی دسک تاپ گوگل دارای برنامه ای جهت پویش و ایندکس محتوای کامپیوتر است. اما جالب آنکه این برنامه مزیتهایی نیز نسبت به محصولات مشابه خود دارد . وجود یک محیط تخصصی و بسیار کاربردی و مبتی بر فرمهای ویندوز و عدم نیاز به مروگر وب از امتیازهایی هست که این برنامه نسبت به محصول شرکت گوگل دارد.
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Copernic Desktop Search allows you to instantly find files, emails, images, multimedia and more, that is located on your PC (not the Internet).
It creates an initial index of your hard drive and provides an attractive and easy to use search interface that returns results instantly, as soon as you type in your keyword. It provides image thumbnails for picture matches, integrated preview with keyword highlighting and more.
Copernic Desktop Search can also (optionaly) index your web surfing history, as well as Contacts and Favorites
Features:
· Lets you perform sub-second searches of your PC's files and emails in a user-friendly interface. · Enables you to search from any application, anytime. The search bar conveniently integrates with the Windows taskbar. · Offers specific refining fields for each desktop search category. · Uses your computer resources intelligently when indexing documents so as not to impair your work by throttling back while you are using other software. · Displays and filters matching results as you type. · Quickly creates and updates the index in the background with no limitation concerning the number of documents to be indexed. · Delivers advanced fault tolerance and recovery architecture to ensure everlasting index integrity. · Automatically indexes on-the-fly new and updated files in the background (Windows NT/2000/XP required), including new emails sent or received with Microsoft Outlook · Supports advanced Boolean operators (AND/+, OR, NOT/-), quotes (exact phrase or whole word) and parentheses. · Lets you enter keywords directly into the search box located in the Windows taskbar using a keyboard shortcut from any application. · Lets you preview Web pages, text files, e-mails and pictures for selected results without needing to open any other application to analyze document’s relevancy or cut and paste a selection. · Scrolls document previews directly to the first word or phrase that you are looking for. · Offers specific sorting and grouping fields for each search category in order to ease result viewing. · Offers plenty of time-saving shortcuts to other applications via links and right-click menus available in search categories. · Offers many customizable options to configure various features and parameters. · Highlights search keywords with a different color for each keyword in result lists and previews of text files or documents.