UW E-Business Institute Benchmark Study of Desktop Search Tools

A useful 15 page PDF report comparing the performance of the major desktop search tools.

“… In an effort to help understand the differences between the latest desktop search tools on the market, the UW E-Business Consortium recently conducted a benchmark study of 12 popular desktop search tools. The benchmark criteria that were used for the evaluation included usability, versatility, accuracy, efficiency, security, and enterprise readiness.”

Apart from switching the top two positions, I agree with their final ranking. They have Copernic in the number 1 slot and Yahoo at number 2. I prefer Yahoo because of the wide range of file formats it supports but would agree that Copernic’s dynamic indexing, which means that it detects new and updated files on the fly, is a big plus.