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`Searcher of Your Own Domain
`Stephen Manes, 09.06.04, 12:00 AM ET
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`Google your own e-mail, calendar, contacts and documents--no Google required.
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`Google's newsmaking IPO proves that searching the
`Web remains hot. But an often more pressing need,
`performing a search of your hard drive's own electronic
`documents with Google-like speed, is just beginning to
`develop a buzz.
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`Google's new Gmail Web service lets you harvest
`relevant nuggets from your e-mail mine, but it is still in
`trials and not yet available to the general public and
`can't hunt through attachments anyway. The company
`isn't confirming the mounting rumors about the
`existence of a Google-for-your-hard-drive.
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`Microsoft has touted desktop search for a very long
`time; it's just bad at it. As Bill Gates admitted in a
`February PC Magazine interview: "We actually have in
`the operating system this text indexer; nobody turns it
`on, because it just sits there and grinds the disk.…" The
`search functions in Microsoft applications like Outlook
`Express can be every bit as unsatisfying.
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`But at a July meeting for financial analysts, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Yusuf Mehdi
`demonstrated an unreleased version of a new local PC file search by finding the words
`"Total Attendance" in "an Excel spreadsheet that is inside of an .e-mail attachment that's in
`my e-mail store." Microsoft trumpeted this technology as innovative, but competitors' existing
`products can already do the same trick and more.
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`The best I've found is Enfish Find. Once installed, it takes a couple of hours to index your
`mail (including attachments), contacts, calendar and files in popular formats. After that you
`can type in "Uncle Joe" and see everything on your hard disk that contains the phrase. Part
`of the screen shows a list of relevant items; the rest lets you look at the documents
`themselves, precisely where the first reference appears.
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`If too many items come up, you can narrow the results by adding words and/or restricting the
`search to specific types of documents or the dates they were created. Once you've found the
`right item, double-clicking will launch it in the proper application.
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`The $50 program installs optional toolbars in Microsoft Office programs and Internet
`Explorer, so a search is never far away. But I found a few glitches, such as calendar entries
`sorted by the day they were entered rather than the day they occur, and unexpected delays
`in updating indexes.
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`Enfish does create a potential security and privacy risk by retrieving and displaying Web links
`in received e-mail--potentially revealing your existence to spammers--even if you've told
`your e-mail client not to. But if you're willing to put up with that and take a bit of time
`learning the program's syntax, you're likely to find Enfish Find exceptionally useful. Skip the
`$200 Professional version, which adds needless complexity.
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`A reasonable $100 alternative ($75 till Sept. 15) is X1 Technologies' X1 Search. Unlike
`Enfish, it can find "shopping" and "shops" when you type in "shop." But whereas Enfish
`searches everything at once, X1 makes you perform annoying separate searches for files, e-
`mail, attachments and contacts and doesn't handle calendar entries at all. X1 has the same
`downloaded-links bug that Enfish does, but adds some glitches in the way it works with
`Outlook Express, like the inability to forward attachments if you launch a message from X1.
`It also crashed now and then on my machine.
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`A third program, HotBot Desktop, installs itself as a toolbar for Internet Explorer. It's free at
`hotbot.com but is currently so ill-conceived that it won't bother to index any files unless you
`go to an unobvious place and tell it to--and a major bug kept it from working with e-mail at
`all on my machine. But you might get luckier. The company plans significant improvements
`in a future release.
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`While waiting for Microsoft, and possibly Google, to get their entries into the market, you
`can sample X1 and Enfish in 15- and 30-day free trials. So it won't cost you a dime to see if
`you agree that Enfish is the real find.
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