Desktop search tools

[quant]

Originally posted by J-Mac
Thanks quant. Well, I won't even consider Archivarius at all unless I discover from someone else that it can do something great like search our URDs. Otherwise, I cannot trial the software to evaluate it because the developer limits his trial version to 10,000 files, which is not adequate for me (and several others I know) to test it. I can handle time-limited trials; that works fine for me. But limiting a search engine in how much it can search through? Unacceptable.

You could test it on part of your data, and it's a limitation per index (you can have many indexes, so in fact you could easily get around that limitation if you wanted), but fair enough. You're missing a lot, morphology, wild card support * ?, search for close words match, ...