A comparison of desktop search engines.

There have been several companies putting out their unique versions of desktop software. This article from ZDNet UK gives a nice comparison about each offering.

There are all of a sudden several choices for desktop searches and I believe that these are going to become as common as search toolbars are right now. Icould see a company coming out with a licensed desktop search which can be private labeled by a company or organization. Although no one has suggested going that way yet, there is going to be fierce competition in this area of search. In the comparison, Microsoft is not yet in the race obviously, as they have not released their version which is coming very soon. None of these comparisons means a whole lot until we see what Microsoft has to offer.

I will say that of the offerings listed in this article, Copernic makes the most sense. It has a clean interface, very logical and it doesn't blur the line between desktop search and internet search. It does desktop search with one program and web search with another. I like this separation for privacy concerns. With Copernic, it's all a matter of choice. This is the main question for these companies and for the searching public at large. Is it good to combine desktop search results with web results? Right now, that's the intellectual battle going on. But it all depends on the searching public and how guarded they want to keep their private information.

This new frontier of search only plans to heat up as various companies see themselves getting closer to users through the desktop, therefore securing a more profitable future. That is the thinking anyway, but who knows which way the searching public will take this.

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