Pricing for five concurrent users of the DtSearch network version starts at $800. But the user interface and administration screens helped rather than hindered, and the network products use similar interfaces.
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I tested the DtSearch Desktop product a couple of years ago and it provided much more detail and control than Google Desktop Search (of course, Google remains free while the DtSearch Desktop with Spider costs $199).
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You'll also find files that shouldn't be on your company network, so take this chance to clean house a bit.īesides Google there are tools from DtSearch, which offers a variety of software solutions. As data regulations apply to smaller and smaller companies, you may need to organize your files just for compliance. Gathering and organizing your files will make your backups more complete. Most companies doing a file inventory discover important files scattered all over the company, including files on individual hard drives that never get backed up (oops). Reducing redundant files saves disk space, especially when talking about non-text documents like graphics, music and presentations. Such an inventory project will pay multiple dividends, even if you don't buy a search program or appliance.
Before you say I'm just a wordy pack rat, inventory your own file structure. Many are revisions or scratch files I don't need to index, but the total of nearly 7,000 files surprised me, and those aren't all the files I want to index. My \WP directory tree, where I store all my files for articles and books, has 6,997 files as of today.
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The basic unit handles 50,000 files, and indexing more files costs more money for a software license upgrade, up to $8,995 for 300,000 documents.įifty thousand searchable documents sounds like plenty, but a file inventory may surprise you. Rather than limiting access by user count, as do Microsoft servers, Google search appliances have a cap on the number of files they index. The recently retooled Google Mini search appliance starts at $1995, meaning smaller companies can now afford to Google themselves privately. Google started with an enterprise search appliance, which it still sells, but a starting price of $30,000 puts it out of reach of most small businesses. They own the Web and desktop search markets, and now your own network can have an official Google search appliance. That's not true, but hand it to the GoogleHeads to make search exciting. Now that Google's in the dictionary as a noun and a verb many people believe search equals Google. One name will be familiar, but you may never have heard some of the other good options. Search has hit the company network, and even workgroups have affordable search options today. Overall, the study saw significant potential for desktop search tools in business environments and likened its value and evolution to Instant Messaging.If you hear the phrase, "where's that file" in your company or have uttered the words yourself, take heart. “We continue to receive positive feedback from our customers around the globe, and the findings from UW only validate our approach to making our desktop search software extremely user-friendly.” “By having the foresight to develop and execute this study, the UW E-Business Consortium is ahead of the curve in predicting that desktop search will become a standard tool used throughout the business community,” said David M. 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.Ĭompleted 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. Copernic Desktop Search Voted Best Desktop Search ApplianceĬopernic 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.
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