Another terrific application from Google stable. It is lightening fast. You can search your local computer the way you search the web.

It creates index of the information on your computer. Once the index is built, it is continually updated with changes on the fly. Then you can search documents, email, web history, photographs almost instantly.

Google Desktop Search is only for Windows XP or Windows 2000 users. Along with google desktop comes gadgets,  tiny but useful programs that integrate with main software.

 

 

 

 

 

It's an award winning desktop search program from Yahoo and X1. It's fast, reliable and can index the contents of 370 different file types including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Outlook, Outlook Express, HTML, text, ZIP and Adobe PhotoShop  It also indexes files for most of the popular e-mail clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Netscape, Eudora and Lotus Notes. It requires Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP3.

 

 

 

 

Exalead Desktop is same as above two. It searches more than 100 file types, including email messages, email attachments, Office documents, PDFs, images, sound files, video clips and more.

However, what makes it unique is its  highly customizable nature of its search, probably the best of any product. It can also do fuzzy searches as well. If you need to make highly specified searches then do try Exalead, you wont  be disappointed