After I posted yesterday about Copernic Desktop Search, I came across a review of five search tools in Slate, covering Ask Jeeves, HotBot, Google Desktop Search, MSN Toolbar Suite and Copernic Desktop Search.
When I read the review, my first reaction was: Where’s X1? Blinkx? This doesn’t look like a good comparison. An explanation by reviewer Paul Boutin:
If your favorite (X1, Blinkx, Lookout, etc) isn’t in there, it’s because we focused on those that are (a) free and (b) being mass-marketed by the big Web portals – AOL, Google, HotBot, Ask Jeeves, and MSN. Yahoo’s X1-powered app isn’t available yet.
Ok, fair enough.
Bottom line – Slate’s view on which is the best one: Copernic Desktop Search.
Enough said.
Copernic was by far the best of the bunch ….until
a bug creepeed in. Now, it is impossible to use it on my new system. It looks like it goes into an infinite loop and crashes. I tried many times loading and starting from scratch, the same bug appears. It is best IF IT WORKS….
Sorry to hear of your troubles, cagaty! I have to say that I’ve not encountered any issues at all in running or using Copernic Desktop Search.
The latest version is 1.2 build 519. Do you have that one? If you can get the program running, click on Help and select the Submit Error Report option. If you can’t even run the program, then I suggest you visit Online Support –
http://www.copernic.com/en/support/form-contactsupport.html