Which Desktop Search Tool Is The Best?

While the search industry continues to evolve, an area that's received a great deal of focus has to do with creating a successful desktop search tool. This mentality has led to a proliferation of desktop search (DTS) tools. Because of this, knowing which one is better can be a best-guess/trial-and-error scenario until now.

University of Wisconsin-Madison E-business Institute conducted a study titled: Copernic is indeed the best DTS tool available. The UW E-business Institute also establishes this conclusion by saying: Copernic is the most well-balanced desktop search tool among those evaluated. The tool is intuitive and easy to use. The new beta version supports FireFox for Web history search, and Thunderbird and Eudora for e-mail (as well as IE, Outlook and Outlook Express) alltheweb.com). Although, if this is the biggest criticism of Copernic's tool, they must be doing everything else correctly (or just better than their competitors). Not only did the study anoint Copernic as the best desktop search utility, it also ranked the other tools that were tested. Surprisingly, Google didn't represent themselves as well as one might expected (fifth place finish). The rankings: