I’ve had Copernic installed on my WinXP machine at work for a month or so now, and I absolutely love it. It makes it super easy to find a document, spreadsheet, or PDF report in seconds. I even let it slip out to a co-worker or two that I could search so easily and I’ve been approached sense then to help them track down a roque report. I want to explore the option of pushing something like this on to everyone’s desktop here, but I’ve yet to come up with any viable solution. I don’t want 10+ computers indexing the same content – that just creates too much hard drive thrashing and network traffic when indexing a file server. I’d like to have one PC do the indexing and the others share that index. Security is obviously a concern also – I don’t want users who don’t have access to “Folder X” or “File Z” to be able to search and come up with excerpts from those restricted areas. I have a feeling that no desktop search would fare so well. But anyway, that’s just some random techno-babble for you.
Hello,
you can take a look at Coveo Enterprise Search then. It’s a server based indexer that would be perfect for your needs I think. Coveo is a spin off of Copernic so I guess it’s quality. And it’s free up to 5000 documents. Unless you index tons of emails, that could fit your needs. There are also other free server indexer available out there, but I don’t know them as much as I know Coveo Enterprise Search.