Vista integrated search right across the operating system but restricted access to Windows Search technologies only.
Windows Search provided decent performance, but just wasn’t as fast or efficient as Google Desktop. Google protested against Microsoft’s restrictions in Vista. Microsoft’s response was as of Vista Service Pack 1 to allow third-party applications to be set as the [...]

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Fileseek is another application developed by the creator of Display Fusion, one of the best multi-monitor wallpaper applications in existence. The software is a file search that can be seen as a Windows Search Replacement. Why could it be a great replacement ? Because it does offer features that the default Windows search does not [...]

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Browsing some web 2.0 blogs, I came across a site that boasts a new kind of web search. I quite like the idea since online search is one of the least researched topics from a user experience point of view I think. Yes, Google is doing a lot and refining and tweaking and tuning, but [...]

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Let me introduce the smallest desktop search program available. Snowbird Xp is small, only 26K in size and fast at the same time. Just download and run it from whatever location you like. Snowbird does not index search results which has the advantage that you will always recieve up to date information. Some features have been updated in the new release, amongst them is the capability to search in word documents and excel spreadsheets.

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Kenny created a new freeware application that uses a given keyword and searches one of the 112 search engines using that keyword. When the results are displayed you have the option to grab all links from that page and save them in html format. This was initially created for a friend who needed it for market research but it is pretty useful for everyone I guess.

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