Tag: COPERNIC

X1 has long been considered the Rolls-Royce of desktop search applications, but unfortunately was often left out of desktop search roundups due to the fact that it was a commercial product (and an expensive one at that), competing against a number of very good free offerings. Well it turns out that X1 realized they were losing out to all of the free offerings, and finally decided to release their ...

Windows Desktop Search has unfortunately had a bit of a spotty record as of late. Those of you early adopters that have been running the Office 2007 beta have been subjected to the previous version which had the UI stripped out of it. This wasn't a problem for searching Outlook, but otherwise it was pretty neutered. Worse, the indexer ate up a ridiculous amount of resources, and performance was ...

The newest version of of Copernic Desktop Search—2.0—is now in beta. The beta isn't feature-complete, but includes a ton of changes, including a redesigned UI, significant performance improvements, simultaneous searching in all categories, smart query corrections ("Did you mean..."), saved searches, wildcards, and a completely redesigned deskbar. You might recall that late ...

Copernic, best known for their powerful and free desktop search product, has been purchased by Mamma.com in a deal valued at approximately $22 million in cash and stocks. The deal brings together two companies that had originally announced intentions for a merger over 13 months ago, but had their plans waylaid by an inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission into Mamma.com's trading ...