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| PeterPotkay |
 Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:05 pm Post subject: Desktop Search Tool |
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Any recomendations?
The big 3 I see are MSN Search Toolbar, Yahoo and Google.
Yahoo got PC mag's award, but it doesn't look like it will search visted web pages. No network drives in the free version.
Google looks pretty good, but no network drives.
MSN does not got inside PDFs, and I can't figure out if it supports share drives.
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| csmith28 |
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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I've used Google's. It seemed to work ok.
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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I found that MSN will index share drives, which is a big plus....if it only got inside PDFs....
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| sebastianhirt |
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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They compared them on some cheesy german Computer shows.
MSN won in all of them, because it does the best index and therefore gives the best hits. |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| sebastianhirt wrote: |
| MSN won in all of them, because Microsoft paid the most money to the reviewers. |
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| csmith28 |
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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| jefflowrey wrote: |
| sebastianhirt wrote: |
| MSN won in all of them, because Microsoft paid the most money to the reviewers. |
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Wow, that must have happened before IBM bought the patent. 
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| jefflowrey |
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| IBM bought the patent. |
That's how you know it's healthy!
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