One limitation is that Web and local results aren't combined (federated), which is a handy capability of Exalead and Google. You search the Web from Copernic's main interface, a process that jumps to the firm's own Internet search engine. Therefore, if you need to look for the same type of documents, you can recall prior query settings and perform a search with one click. But you don't get the variety of advanced searching included with dtSearch or X1.Ĭopernic lets you name and save searches. For example, the query 'netbook NEAR linux' finds documents with the words 'netbook' and 'linux' at most 10 words apart. For those with more experience, Copernic lets you refine searches by combining your search term and commonly used Boolean operators. The ease of searching – simply type words into the search box – might not be adequate for advanced users. A special navigation area helps you further refine results by picking a specific file type (such as all Word documents).
You can preview documents, with the search word highlighted, so there's no need to open them in the originating application. My searches finished in less than a second, and returned a list of matches that can be further sorted and grouped in multiple ways – by file name, date and author. The plain English labels should be helpful for novice users who may not know the difference between an MP3 audio file and JPG image. This product has a contemporary, streamlined user interface with tabs that identify the asset types that you can search, such as e-mail, contacts, music, images, or all types at once. Additional settings let you control how computer resources are allocated during indexing, such as memory and CPU. Interestingly, Copernic is the only product specifically optimized for netbooks it intelligently suspends indexing while you're doing other work to save battery power.
Normally, Copernic automatically updates its index in real time as new e-mails are received and files are edited – and operating in this default mode didn't appear to affect the computer's performance.Īlternately, you can create a custom indexing schedule for each category of files. An initial scan on my test system required about 30 minutes. No matter which version you pick, during setup you choose which files and e-mail folders to index. These include customizing help messages, limiting indexing to certain sources, and specifying performance settings during setup. The corporate option indexes Lotus Notes content and gives technical staff automated deployment capabilities.
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