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Vendor | Version | Download Link | Price |
Operating Systems |
System Requirements | Searchable File Types | Business or Consumer | ||
80/20 Verity Now IDOL from Autonomy Enterprise Version |
N/A | Demo | N/A |
Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0 with Service
Pack 6a (SP6a); Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional; Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Internet Explorer 4.01 SP2 or later is required to use browser-accessible features such as in-place document viewing, HTML frames, Outlook Web Access and Microsoft Exchange Public Folder access without Outlook Web Access |
Processor: Intel Pentium III or compatible
processor; 450 megahertz (MHz) or higher 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM required on Windows 2000 systems; 256 MB required on Windows XP systems |
Email Outlook, Lotus Notes, Attachments | Business | ||
AOL
|
2.0 | Demo Available to AOL subscribers | Free | Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP |
Microsoft® Windows XP or Microsoft Windows
2000 • Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or later • 100MB disk space • 256MB RAM |
Office 2000+ for Office doc formats Outlook for email Images – jpg, gif and png Music Files – mp3, wma and wav Video Files – mpeg and wmv |
Consumer | ||
Autonomy | beta 1.7.0 | Demo | Free | N/A | N/A | N/A | Business | ||
Ask Jeeves
Now ASK |
beta | Demo | Free |
Windows2000 Windows XP |
P3 400MHz and 128 MB RAM minimum 1 GHz and 256 MB RAM recommended |
Office 2000+ for Office doc formats Outlook for email Images – jpg, gif and png Music Files – mp3, wma and wav Video Files – mpeg and wmv Plus: bookmarks, web page history and more |
Business and Consumer | ||
Blinkx
|
3.5 |
Size of Application
|
Free | Windows 98,2000,ME,XP, 2003, MAC OS |
Hard Disk 100MB Memory (64 MB) and processor (200 Mhz CPU
|
Internet Explorer 4, Internet
Explorer 5, Internet Explorer 6 TV |
Business and Consumer | ||
Copernic
Enterprise Version Coveo Desktop Search See Enterprise Desktop Search Matrix for Details
|
1.6
1.5 |
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Free | Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP | N/A |
Microsoft Word documents (versions: 6.0, 95
(7.0), 97, 98 (Mac), 2000, XP, 2003) Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (versions: 5.0, 95 (7.0), 97, 2000, XP, 2003) Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (versions: 97, 2000, XP, 2003) Adobe PDF documents (versions: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4) WordPerfect documents (versions: 5.0, 5.1 (not Far East versions), 5.2 (not Far East versions), 5.x (Windows), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) Microsoft Rich Text documents HTML/XHTML documents XML documents ASCII documents ANSI documents UCS2 Unicode documents (with some limitations) UTF8 documents (with some limitations) |
Business and Consumer | ||
dtSearch | 7.1 |
|
$199 | Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4 or later, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 Server |
256 K RAM 30 MB HD |
Word processor, database, spreadsheet, presentation, ZIP, XML, PDF, HTML, Unicode files, email archives (including attachments), and more. Includes over two dozen indexed, unindexed, fielded and full-text search options. Highlights hits in all retrieved files; for HTML, XML and PDF, also displaying embedded links and images | Business | ||
Enfish Find Professional OEM ONLY |
6.1.3 OEM ONLY |
Demo |
$49.95 $199 |
Windows 98, NT 4.0 (SP 3 or greater), 2000, XP, ME |
Pentium 300Mhz or higher computer 256 MB RAM recommended Internet connectivity recommended Approximately 30 MB required for programs Enfish index requires approximately 8% of the total disk space of items indexed |
Word Processors Microsoft Word 97, 2000, XP, 2003 Microsoft Word 6.0, 7.0 Microsoft Word 4.x, 5.x Microsoft WordPad Windows Write Ami Pro, Ami Professional Write Plus Rich Text Format(RTF) Text - DOS, ANSI, Macintosh, Unicode character sets Uuencode; Text Mail (MIME) WordPerfect 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 Adobe PDFs - Acrobat up to 6.x Spreadsheets Microsoft Excel (and Chart) 97, 2000, XP, 2003 Novell PerfectWorks 2.0 spreadsheet Email Applications Microsoft Outlook Outlook Express Lotus Notes AOL Mail Web Browsers for Indexing Internet Favorites Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x, 6.x Presentation Programs Microsoft PowerPoint 97, 2000, XP, 2003 Databases ACT! (no support yet for ACT! 2005 .dbf file types Graphical File Formats Bitmap Files: Windows bitmap GIF JPEG Novell PerfectWorks 2.0 draw |
Business and Consumer | ||
ESP | beta | Demo | Free |
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP |
N/A | N/A | Consumer | ||
Exalead | Demo | 59.50 |
Windows 2000/XP
Microsoft Windows, UNIX® and Linux. |
N/A | Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe, | Business and Consumer | |||
Filehand | 2.1 | Demo | Free |
Windows XP Home and Pro, and Windows 2000.
(Sorry, it will not run on Windows 95/98/ME/NT.) You should have at least
|
256MB of memory. For disk space, Filehand
Search uses about 20% of the size of the files that you will want to
search. You also need .NET Framework 1.1 |
Microsoft Word (.doc) Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) Microsoft Excel (.xls) Corel WordPerfect (.wpd)* Plain text files Adobe PDF (.pdf) HTML (.htm, .html) Music (.mp3) Outlook 2000-2003 items * WordPerfect support requires filter software from Corel |
Business and Consumer | ||
Gaviri
Pocket Search |
2.1 | Demo | $24.95 USD | Windows, Linux, Mac and UNIX concurrently |
N/A
Indexes portable devices and desktop |
Indexes multiple devices: Portable Device: Flash, camera, MP3 Player, and more. Desktop U3 and non-U3 USB flash drive standards concurrently. Text/HTML Text 7 & 8 bit Microsoft Windows Write Microsoft Excel Macintosh Microsoft PowerPoint for Macintosh Microsoft Outlook Express (EML) Microsoft Outlook Express (DBX) MP3 Music Files (ID3v1, ID3v2) Bitmap (BMP, ICO, CUR) GZIP |
Business and Consumer | ||
Google Desktop
Enterprise Version Google Enterprise Desktop See Enterprise Desktop Search for Details |
4.5
|
Free | Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and above. MAC |
128MB of RAM and a 400MHz Pentium processor 500MB of space available on your hard disk. must have administrator privileges
|
Microsoft Word Excel Power point Web Pages Text AOL IM PDF files Multimedia files, including audio (MP3, WMA, WAVand more), images (JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP and more), and videos (AVI, MPG, WMV, and more), by meta-tag. Third Party Plug ins add more file types Lotus Notes Google Desktop Search 4 includes:
Side Bar, Outlook Toolbar, RSS Reader, News Clips, Photos, Gmail Search,
Search Multiple Computers, Share Sidebar info, Gadgets |
Business and Consumer | |||
ISYS:desktop
Enterprise Version ISYS:Enterprise |
8.0 |
Demo |
$1000 for networked version and $100 per seat |
Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000/XP and
Linix
|
140 MB HDD, 256MD Ram |
200+File types MS Office products, e-mail, attachments, PDF, HTML, ZIP files, databases and native format spreadsheets Act! ADO Adobe Acrobat (PDF) ANSI Text ASCII Source Code ASCII Text ASCII Transcript AutoCAD BDE Btrieve Comma Separated Values (CSV) CompuServe E-mail DBase (III, IV) DisplayWrite (4, 5) Eudora Excel (2.0 - 2000, XP, 2003) Flash (4-6) FoxPro (2, 2.5) Framework 3 FTP Haansoft Hangul HTML Raw Codes HTML Text Only HTTP IBM DCA/RFT IBM FFT Informix Interbase Lotus 123 (3, 4, 5 96, 97) Lotus Ami Pro Lotus cc:Mail Lotus Manuscript Lotus Notes Lotus WordPro (2.0, 3.0, 97) MASS - 11PC Microsoft Access (2000, XP, 2003) Microsoft Binders Microsoft EML Microsoft Excel (2.0 - 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003) Microsoft Exchange Microsoft HTML Help (CHM) Microsoft MHT Microsoft MSG Microsoft Outlook (97, 98, 2000, XP, 2003) Microsoft Outlook Express (4, 5, 6) Microsoft PowerPoint (4.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003) Microsoft Public Folders Microsoft RTF (Rich Text Format) Microsoft Word DOS (2.0 - 5.5) Microsoft Word (2.0-6.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003) Microsoft Wordpad Microsoft Works (1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0) MP3 MS Internet Mail MS SQL Server Multimate (3.0, 4.0, 5.0, Advantage) My SQL Netscape Mail Open Access II Oracle 8 Paradox (3.x, 4.x, 2000) Professional Write Public MAPI Q & A Write Revelation SGML Text Only Spreadsheets SQL Sybase Uniplex Ventura publisher mark-up VIM Wang IWP Wang WP PLUS Windows Write (1.0, 2.0, 3.0) Word Perfect 4.2, 5.0, 6, 7, 8, 10, 2000) Wordstar (3, 4, 5, 6, 2000) XML XYWrite ZIP files |
Business | ||
JetBrains Omea Pro |
1.0 | Demo | $49 |
.NET Framework version 1.1 Windows 2000/XP/2003 |
Pentium 4 or AMD processor 256 MB memory 1024x768 pixels screen resolution |
Microsoft Word HTML Microsoft Outlook plain text, ICQ: 2000a - 2003b Miranda: all versions RSS (from 0.91 to 2.0) ATOM 0.3
|
Business and Consumer | ||
Lycos Hotbot | beta | Demo | Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP | N/A | Search files, email, internet, browser history, and RSS news feeds | Consumer | |||
MSN Toolbar Suite • MSN Deskbar • MSN Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer • MSN Toolbar for Outlook Compare Microsoft Live Search Products
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1.0 | Demo | Free | Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 or later, Windows XP |
Pentium 233MHz processor or better (500MHz
recommended). Minimum 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended) MSN Desktop Search requires Microsoft Outlook 2000+ or Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0+ to index and search your email |
Outlook Email Outlook Contacts Outlook Calendar Outlook Tasks Outlook Notes Outlook Email Word Excel PowerPoint OneNote Plain Text Files AOL IM MSN IM PDFs MP3 GIF JPG BMP WMA AVI HTML Pages Outlook Express Email Hotmail via OE or Outlook Third Party
Adins:
addins.msn.com |
Business and Consumer | ||
Svizzer G10 Software AG |
3.2 | Demo | Free or $80.00 | Windows XP, 2000 and Windows 2003 Server |
400 MHz processor 128 MB RAM Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 |
Microsoft Office, Outlook and Outlook ex-press, Acrobat Reader, TXT, RTF, HTML, MP3, GIF and bmp. | Business and Consumer | ||
The Sleuthound | 4.6.3 |
Demo 3.2 MB |
$74.95 | Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2002 | N/A |
MS Outlook email messages New! Outlook Express email messages New! Multimedia MP3 WMA files *.mp3 *.wma MS DOS text document *.txt MS Windows text document *.txt MS Word 6.0 document *.doc + earlier version MS Word document *.doc MS Word 95 document *.doc MS Word 97 document *.doc MS Word 2000 document *.doc MS Word 2004 document *.doc MS Word 2000 templates *.dot RTF documents *.rtf HTML documents *.htm, *.html, *.shtml Documents in ZIP archives *.zip Adobe Acrobat (PDF) *.pdf MS PowerPoint presentations and slides *.ppt, *.pps WordPerfect (ver 7-9) *.wpd ASP documents *.asp HTML documents *.shtml PHP documents *.php, *.phtml MS Excel documents *.xls Any document type if document coding compatible with ASCII, ANSI, Unicode. For Example *.c, *.cpp, *.bas, etc. |
Business and Consumer | ||
Wizetech Software
Archivarius 3000 |
3.28 | Demo
2.2mb |
$45.00 | Windows 95, 98 or NT4 (or better). | Pentium Processor, 32mb ram - 32+ mb ram recommended | 1C:Enterprise, Moxcel Spreadsheets (.mxl) 1C:Enterprise, External Reports (.ert) Adobe Acrobat Reader (.pdf) Adobe PageMaker 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 (.pm4, .pm5, pm6, .p65, .pmd) ChiWriter (.chi) Comma Separated Values (.csv) Compressed HTML (.chm) Corel Word Perfect (.wpd) Hyper Text Markup Language (.html, .htm) Help files (.hlp) IBM Final Form Text (.fft) IBM Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheets (.wk1, .wk2, .wk3, .wk4, .wks) IBM Lotus Ami Pro (.sam) IBM Revisable Form Text (.rft) Internet Location (.url) Microsoft Excel 2/3/4/5/95/97/2000/XP/2003 (.xls, .xlw) Microsoft Power Point (.ppt) Microsoft Word (.doc) Microsoft Word for Macintosh (.mcw) Microsoft Word templates (.dot) Microsoft Works documents (.wps) Microsoft Works databases (.wdb) Microsoft Works spreadsheets (.wks, .xlr) Microsoft Write (.wri) Plain Text (.txt, .asc, .lex) PROMPT translator (.std) Rich Text Format (.rtf) TRichView documents (.rvf) WinOrganizer databases (.gso) Word and Deed (.w&d) XML Extensible Markup Language (.xml) Mirabilis ICQ chat (.cht) ACE
(.ace) |
Business and Consumer | ||
X1
Enterprise Platform |
v6 | Demo | FreeTrial
$50.00
|
Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP Vista | • 256 MB RAM required • 512 MB RAM recommended • 50 MB free hard disk space 1 gig
free space recommended. |
ASCII Text 7 & 8 bit • ANSI Text 7 & 8 bit • HTML Versions through 3.0 • IBM Revisable Form Text All versions • IBM FFT All versions • Microsoft Rich Text Format All versions • Text Mail (MIME) No specific version • Unicode Text All versions • WML Compatible with WML specification 5.2 DEC WPS Plus (DX) Versions through 4.0 • DEC WPS Plus (WPL) Versions through 4.1 • DisplayWrite 2 & 3 (TXT) All versions • DisplayWrite 4 & 5 Versions through Release 2.0 • Enable Versions 3.0, 4.0 and 4.5 • First Choice Versions through 3.0 • Framework Version 3.0 • IBM Writing Assistant Version 1.01 • Lotus Manuscript Version 2.0 • MASS11 Versions through 8.0 • Microsoft Word Versions through 6.0 • Microsoft Works Versions through 2.0 • MultiMate Versions through 4.0 • Navy DIF All versions • Nota Bene Version 3.0 • Novell WordPerfect Versions through 6.1 • Office Writer Versions 4.0 - 6.0 • PC-File Letter Versions through 5.0 • PC-File+ Letter Versions through 3.0 • PFS:Write Versions A, B and C • Professional Write Versions through 2.1 • Q&A Version 2.0 • Samna Word Versions through Samna Word IV+ • SmartWare II Version 1.02 • Sprint Versions through 1.0 • Total Word Version 1.2 • Volkswriter 3 & 4 Versions through 1.0 • Wang PC (IWP) Versions through 2.6 • WordMARC Versions through Composer Plus • WordStar Versions through 7.0 • WordStar 2000 Versions through 3.0 • XyWrite Versions through III Plus Adobe FrameMaker (MIF) Version 6.0, text only • Corel/Novell WordPerfect for Windows Versions through 11 • Hangul Version 97 • JustSystems Ichitaro Versions 5.0, 6.0, 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0 • JustWrite Versions through 3.0 • Legacy Versions through 1.1 • Lotus AMI/AMI Professional Versions through 3.1 • Lotus Word Pro Versions 96 -- Millennium Edition 9.6 (text only) • Microsoft Works for Windows Versions through 4.0 • Microsoft Windows Write Versions through 3.0 • Microsoft Word for Windows Versions through 2003 • Microsoft WordPad All versions • Novell Perfect Works Version 2.0 • Professional Write Plus Version 1.0 • Q&A Write for Windows Version 3.0 • StarOffice Write for Windows and UNIX Version 5.2 (text only) • WordStar for Windows Version 1.0 MacWrite II Version 1.1 • Microsoft Word for Mac Versions 3.0 -- 4.0, 98, 2001 • Microsoft Works for Mac Versions through 2.0 • Novell WordPerfect Versions 1.02 through 3.0 Enable Versions 3.0, 4.0 and 4.5 • First Choice Versions through 3.0 • Framework Version 3.0 • Lotus 1-2-3 (DOS & Windows) Versions through 5.0 • Lotus 1-2-3 (OS/2) Versions through 2.0 • Lotus 1-2-3 Charts (DOS & Windows) Versions through 5.0 • Lotus 1-2-3 for SmartSuite Versions 97 - Millennium Edition 9.6 • Lotus Symphony Versions 1.0,1.1 and 2.0 • Microsoft Excel Charts Versions 2.x - 7.0 • Microsoft Excel Macintosh Versions 3.0 - 98 • Microsoft Excel Windows Versions 2.2 through 2002 • Microsoft Multiplan Version 4.0 • Microsoft Works (DOS) Versions through 2.0 • Microsoft Works (Mac) Versions through 2.0 • Microsoft Works for Windows Versions through 4.0 • Mosaic Twin Version 2.5 • Novell Perfect Works Version 2.0 • PFS:Professional Plan Version 1.0 • Quattro Pro for DOS Versions through 5.0 • Quattro Pro for Windows Versions through 10 • SmartWare II Version 1.02 • StarOffice Calc for Windows and UNIX Version 5.2 (text only) • SuperCalc 5 Version 4.0 • VP Planner 3D Version 1.0 dBASE Versions through 5.0 • DataEase Version 4.x • dBXL Version 1.3 • Enable Versions 3.0, 4.0 and 4.5 • First Choice Versions through 3.0 • FoxBase Version 2.1 • Framework Version 3.0 • Microsoft Works (DOS) Versions through 2.0 • Microsoft Works (Mac) Versions through 2.0 • Microsoft Works for Windows Versions through 4.0 • Paradox (DOS) Versions through 4.0 • Paradox (Windows) Versions through 1.0 • Personal R:BASE Version 1.0 • R:BASE 5000 Versions through 3.1 • R:BASE System V Version 1.0 • Reflex Version 2.0 • Q & A Versions through 2.0 • SmartWare II Version 1.02 Corel/Novell Presentations Versions through 11 • Harvard Graphics for DOS Versions 2.x & 3.x • Harvard Graphics for Windows Windows versions • Freelance for Windows Versions through Millennium Edition 9.6 • Freelance for OS/2 Versions through 2.0 • Microsoft PowerPoint for Macintosh Versions 4.0 through 2001 • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows Versions 3.0 through 2003 • StarOffice Impress for Windows and UNIX Version 5.2 (text only) Adobe FrameMaker Graphics (FMV) Version 5.0 • Adobe Illustrator Versions through 9.0 • Adobe Photoshop (PSD) Version 4.0 • Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Versions through 6.0 • AmiDraw (SDW) Ami Draw • AutoCAD (DXF and DWG) V.2.5 - 2.6, 9.0 - 14.0, 2000i - 2002 • Binary Group 3 Fax All versions • Bitmap (BMP, RLE, ICO, CUR, OS/2, DIB & WARP) Windows • CALS Raster (GP4) Type I and Type II • Corel Draw (CDR) Versions 6.0 - 8.0 • Corel Draw (CDR with TIFF header) Versions 2.0 - 9.0 • Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) ANSI, CALS NIST version 3.0 • Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) TIFF header only • GEM Paint (IMG) No specific version • Graphics Environment Mgr. (GEM) Bitmap & vector • Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) No specific version • Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (HPGL) Version 2 • IBM Graphics Data Format (GDF) Version 1.0 • IBM Picture Interchange Format (PIF) Version 1.0 • Initial Graphics Exchange Spec (IGES) Version 5.1 • JFIF (JPEG not in TIFF format) All versions • JPEG (including EXIF) No specific version • Kodak Flash Pix (FPX) No specific version • Kodak Photo CD (PCD) Version 1.0 • Lotus PIC No specific version • Lotus Snapshot All versions • Macintosh PICT1 & PICT2 Bitmap only • MacPaint (PNTG) No specific version • Micrografx Draw (DRW) Versions through 4.0 • Micrografx Designer (DRW) Versions through 3.1 • Micrografx Designer (DSF) Windows 95, version 6.0 • Novell PerfectWorks (Draw) Version 2.0 • OS/2 Bitmap All versions • OS/2 PM Metafile (MET) Version 3.0 • Paint Shop Pro (PSP) Versions 5.0 and 5.01 • Paint Shop Pro 6 (PSP) Win32 only • PC Paintbrush (PCX and DCX) No specific version • Portable Bitmap (PBM) All versions • Portable Graymap (PGM) No specific version • Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Version 1.0 • Portable Pixmap (PPM) No specific version • Progressive JPEG No specific version • Sun Raster (SRS) No specific version • TIFF Versions through 6 • TIFF CCITT Group 3 & 4 Versions through 6 • Truevision TGA (TARGA) Version 2 • Visio (preview) Version 4 • Visio Versions 5, 2000 and 2002 • WBMP No specific version • Windows Enhanced Metafile (EMF) No specific version • Windows Metafile (WMF) No specific version • WordPerfect Graphics (WPG & WPG2) Versions through 2.0 • X-Windows Bitmap (XBM) x10 compatible • X-Windows Dump (XDM) x10 compatible • X-Windows Pixmap (XPM) x10 compatible GZIP No specific version • LZA Self Extracting Compress No specific version • LZH Compress No specific version • Microsoft Binder Versions 7.0-97 • MIME Text Mail No specific version • UUEncode No specific version • UNIX Compress No specific version • UNIX TAR No specific version • ZIP PKWARE versions through 2.04g Executable (EXE, DLL) No specific version • Executable for Windows NT No specific version • Microsoft Outlook Message (MSG) Text only • Microsoft Project Version 98, 2000, and 2002 (text only) • vCard Version 2.1 Lotus Notes Network Drives Adaptors for Microsoft Exchange and others |
Business and Consumer | ||
Yahoo Desktop |
beta | Demo | Free | Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP | • 128 MB RAM required • 256 MB RAM recommended • 50 MB free hard disk space* |
Over 200 file types including:
Email
Desktop and Yahoo |
Business and Consumer |
Vendor | Audio | Video | Pictures | Browsers Supported | Deskbar | Content Management Integration | Enterprise Search Integration | Security | Languages Supported | Search Network Drives | ||
80/20 Verity | Outlook, Lotus Notes | N/A | N/A | N/A | Microsoft Internet Explorer | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | |
AOL | Outlook Express 5.x/6.x and Outlook 2000/XP/200 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 6x./7.x browsers | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | English | No | |
Autonomy | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | SS1Encryption | English | Yes | |
Ask Jeeves | Outlook | Yes | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Internet Explorer | N/A | No | No | Privacy | English | No | |
Blinkx | Outlook, Outlook Express Eudora, Lotus Notes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Internet Explorer Mozilla, Firebird and Firefox |
Floating Toolbar on Desktop Applications. |
No | No | Yes, User Authentication Secure Communications and indexing encryption | English French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch |
No | |
Copernic
Coveo Desktop Search |
Outlook Express 5.x/6.x and Outlook 2000/XP/2003 Mozilla Thunderbird and Eudora | Yes | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 6x./7.x/8 browsers | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes | English French,
|
Yes | |
DT Search | Outlook | Yes | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera | No | N/A | N/A | Yes | English, French, German, over 25 languages, any unicode supported alphabet | Yes | |
Enfish
Find Professional |
Outlook, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, America Online, ACT! or Windows Address Book | No | No | Yes | Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x, 6.x | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | N/A | No | |
ESP | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | English | N/A | |
Exalead | Outlook Express 5.x/6.x, Outlook 2000/XP/2003 | Yes | Yes | English French
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Yes | |||||||
Filehand | Outlook Outlook Express | Yes | No | No | Microsoft Internet Explorer | N/A | Yes | N/A | Yes | English | N/A | |
Gaviri
Pocket Search
|
Outlook Express
Outlook |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Microsoft IE
Firefox Netscape |
N/A | No | N/A | N/A | Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Korean, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian and Ukrainian | N/A | |
Google Desktop | Outlook Outlook Express Netscape Mail, Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird | Yes | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Internet Explorer Netscape 7+, Mozilla and Firefox | Yes | Enterprise via Search Appliance | Yes, Requires Toolbar or Deskbar | Single user only. Enterprise version more secure | English Chinese Korean | No | |
ISYS:desktop | Compuserve, Eudora, Lotus cc:mail,
Microsoft Internet Mail,
Microsoft Outlook (97, 98, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007) Microsoft Personal Folders, PST Netscape Mail, Sendmail mbox Thunderbird 1 and 1.5 VIM |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Internet
Explorer
Fiefox Mozilla |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 60 +including:
Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Bahasa Bengali
Bulgarian Cyrillic Russian Danish Dutch English Estonian Faeroese Farsi
Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Indonesian Italian Japanese |
Yes | |
JetBrains
Omea Pro
|
Outlook | No | No | Yes | Internet Explorer: all versions Mozilla: all versions, including Firebird and Firefox |
No | No | No | Yes | English | No | |
Lycos Hotbot | Outlook
Outlook Express |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 | Yes | No | No | Yes | English | No | |
MSN Toolbar Suite MSN Deskbar MSN Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer MSN Toolbar for Outlook |
Outlook Outlook Express
|
Yes | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later versions | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | English | No | |
Svizzer
G10 Software AG |
Outlook
Outlook Express |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Internet Explorer: all versions, Mozilla: all versions, including Firebird and Firefox | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | English and German | No | |
The Sleuthhound | Outlook
Outlook Express |
Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Catalan, Hungarian, Norwegian, Danish, Bulgarian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian | No | |
Wizetech Software
Archivarius 3000
|
IBM Lotus Notes/Domino mailboxes
Microsoft Exchange The Bat! Netscape |
Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | No | No | No | Yes | English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Swedish, Albanian, Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, Turkish. It’s possible to do context document search in English, German, Spanish, French, Czech, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and Belarusian. | No | |
X1 |
Microsoft Outlook XP, 2003, 2007 |
Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | English | Yes | |
Yahoo Desktop | Microsoft Outlook® Outlook Express Yahoo
Email |
Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | No | No | Yes | English | No |
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