In recent years I have been desperately looking for a search engine that can deal with 20 plus years of electronic files that have built up on my desktop computer. I’m sure that many of you have large amounts of documents, e-mails, and other files that in the “Age of Google”, should be instantly accessible. In recent years I have tried several desktop search engines including ones from Microsoft, Google, and the ISYS (many years ago) and Copernic systems. The only solution that I have found that meets my needs is named X1. X1 started as the Yahoo search engine that was later developed for the individual desktop computer. The X1 system has the ability to index both live and archived Microsoft Outlook e-mail as well as multiple versions of word processing documents including Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, and OpenOffice. And once indexed, I can search the titles and the contents of the documents and files. And of course I am able to restrict the search by a particular directory or date range.
Finally, I am not alone at the NCSC in using automated search. We use the Google Search Appliance to index everything available on the Center’s website on multiple systems. You can try out this search online at the main NCSC website. The search “box” is located in the upper right corner of the page.
For a list of desktop search engines click here.
Happy searching.
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