What it was, was a little app that sat in your taskbar, and when clicked it would open your browser and ready to search - your computer and all of your hard drives, all local searching, nothing internet.

It was pretty quick too. Give it a partial name of a file, or the name of a software that you forgot about and can't find, a music band, your emails - anything that could be searched on your computer - was indexed by this program and ready for quick searching results. I absolutely loved it! I would have programs saved and littered on different drives, drivers for all kinds of computers and devices that I have worked on for people, years and years of emails saved, a million mp3's and a million emails.

All kinda at your fingertips and it was exactly as you would use Google search. The results would come back the same as it would on their page - only when you click on something does it open a file, program or location.

Then, for whatever reason, Google stops supporting it, and stops putting it out altogether. No idea why. I've tried computer indexing and local searching programs over the years. Most were acceptable and gave similar results - but never as many things indexed, never as fast and simply not even as good as windows built in search capabilities.

Until now, for me at least. I have version 10. Apparently version 1.0 came out in 2007!! It also helps when you gt the software 'cheaper' too!

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Lookeen Desktop Search

I'll give my layman's dirtbag summary, then let their own description do so accurately!

Really though, it mainly does just what Google did, but much much faster, IMO. Only downfall I can see thus far is that it apparently only supports Microsoft Outlook as far as indexing emails goes. They tell you that going in though, so don't expect it to cover your emails. But I use "Thunderbird Email" and it's own search right at the top is great and fast, so I don't mind. For me, it's more about searching files, music, pictures, folders....

Anyway.... It's site shows a lot about the business edition side of the software, as I'm sure that's where the money is at, and what they're aiming for in license sales. But they also have a desktop search system which is what I am talking about. And the really stress Outlook, when I personally couldn't give a crap about it. I guess a lot of companies still use it as its great for groups.

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