This just crossed my desktop:
Copernic Desktop Search was selected as the best overall desktop search tool this week in a benchmark study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's E-Business Consortium. The independent study tested vendors on usability, versatility, accuracy, efficiency, security, and enterprise readiness and was not funded or supported by individual desktop search companies or other organizations.
Completed in March 2005, UW's study found Copernic's software to be the most well-balanced desktop search tool among those evaluated, ranking it above 11 competitors including MSN Toolbar Suite, Google Desktop, Yahoo! Desktop Search, Wizetech Archivarius 3000, Ask Jeeves, Enfish Professional, ISYS Desktop, dtSearch Desktop, diskMETA Pro, Blinkx, and HotBot Desktop.
1. I've used several desktop search tools. I started with Copernic and kept trying others, but I keep coming back to Copernic. It's not perfect, but it's the one I've been most pleased with so far. AND, they keep adding features, thus making it more mature than most other tools out there right now.
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Michael Schuermann