Boston-based Copernic (www.copernic.com), a Web search software maker, announced on August 31 the launch of its desktop search engine Copernic Desktop Search (CDS), which searches through files, e-mail messages and attachments, and boasts sub-second searches of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, Adobe Acrobat PDF files, music, image and video formats, and browser history lists and bookmarks.
David Burns, the chief executive officer of Copernic, claimed that Google understands search, Microsoft understands software, while Copernic understands both, that Copernic has eight years of experience in building extremely powerful yet incredibly easy-to-use search software, and that CDS will quickly become the desktop search standard against which all others are judged.
In comparison, Google has long been rumored to be working on desktop search while Microsoft has been spending substantial R&D money on new search technology to stay competitive. Copernic’s CDS, which works with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP, can be downloaded free of charge from at www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/index.html.
