Internet Technologies for Learning
Desktop Search Engine - Copernic
 | Features
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 | Copernic Desktop Search is always available with a single click.
It offers non-obtrusive, integrated entry-points into your operating system. |  | - Desktop Search Window: Perform searches in an easy-to-use interface, open folders or files directly, and more!
- Windows Deskbar: Perform searches from any application, anytime. This search bar conveniently integrates with the Windows taskbar.
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| | Copernic Desktop Search's key features: | | - Lets you perform sub-second searches of your PC's files and emails in a user-friendly interface.
- Enables you to search from any application, anytime. The search bar conveniently integrates with the Windows taskbar.
- Offers specific refining fields for each desktop search category.
- Uses your computer resources intelligently when indexing documents so as not to impair your work by throttling back while you are using other software.
- Displays and filters matching results as you type.
- Quickly creates and updates the index in the background with no limitation concerning the number of documents to be indexed.
- Delivers advanced fault tolerance and recovery architecture to ensure everlasting index integrity.
- Automatically indexes on-the-fly new and updated files in the background (Windows NT/2000/XP required), including new emails sent or received with Microsoft Outlook
- Supports advanced Boolean operators (AND/+, OR, NOT/-), quotes (exact phrase or whole word) and parentheses.
- Lets you enter keywords directly into the search box located in the Windows taskbar using a keyboard shortcut from any application.
- Lets you preview Web pages, text files, e-mails and pictures for selected results without needing to open any other application to analyze document’s relevancy or cut and paste a selection.
- Scrolls document previews directly to the word or phrase that you are looking for.
- Offers specific sorting and grouping fields for each search category in order to ease result viewing.
- Offers plenty of time-saving shortcuts to other applications via links and right-click menus available in search categories.
- Offers many customizable options to configure various features and parameters.
- Highlights search keywords with a different color for each keyword in result lists and previews of text files or documents.
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| | Available desktop search categories: | | - Files: Office documents (Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel worksheets), WordPerfect documents, Adobe Acrobat documents, HTML pages, Text/RTF documents, and more
- Emails: Outlook/Outlook Express emails and attachments
- Music: MP3, WMA, WAV, etc.
- Pictures: JPEG, GIF, etc.
- Videos: MPEG, QuickTime, Windows Media, etc.
- Favorites: Internet Explorer favorites
- History: Internet Explorer history
- Contacts: Outlook Express/Outlook, Windows Address Book
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Available Web search categories may differ substantially over the course of time. Please refer directly to the software to learn more about them. | | |
