Copernic Desktop Search and Copernic Agent Personal
Nov 21st, 2005 by Don Ray
With the whole world gone gaga about Google, it is easy to forget that there are some other search alternatives. If you only use Google you will not find all the possibilities you want.
I use Copernic Personal to search the web. I also use Google, but I like the fact that Copernic remembers my search and if I need to find something that I had previously searched for, it is still listed. When you submit a search under Copernic, it opens up multiple requests with other search clients and they each run independent of the others. For a general web search, my Copernic issues requests from Alta Vista, AOl, Fast Search, HotBot, Lycos, MSN Web Search, Teoma, and Yahoo. There are 8 other possible search engines I could have included. The Copernic Basic Agent is free and does an excellent job, however, I liked the product so much, I bought Copernic Agent Personal.
When it comes to desktop search products, my favorite is Copernic Desktop Search. It is free and once it has the system scanned it is very fast. In my opinion it is better than the Google Desktop Search product.
If you would like to look at all of Copernic’s products look here (Copernic Products).
I agree with your assessment of Copernic Desktop Search completely. I tried Google and Yahoo’s offerings a number of times–given them a “fair chance”, so to speak–but Copernic is *far* superior in its interface, ease-of-use, and speed.
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I have Copernic Agent Professional. I do like it very much, because it let’s me process the results “when” I want. I do have a bone to pick. There is no way to configure, as default, that I want to have the results analysed (searched) with a boolean expression. It takes a number of clicks to get to this window evertime a new search is entered. The second bone to pick, is that prior to an analysis it always wants to search all the search engines (again) before it does the analysis. This a time waster because if it has all the search results (from a recent search) I should be able to tell it to search the local results. There are times when I have a long list of results,sometime 7 or 8,000 (by special request you can get the registry setting to return up to 700 results per search engine; that’s handy for searches for genealogy info, etc.; this alone can take 30-45 minutes). So I don’t want the results wasted, if I just want to refine the boolean expression. Other than that Copernic is very good.
I installed Copernic about 3 years ago and loved it - until there were 3 updates in a row. Caused all kinds of havoc so I decided to uninstall with the intention of re-installing. Couldn’t perform the uninstall - no way - no how. Ended up with massive emails to the home base and finally got rid of it. I miss it - but I sure don’t miss the mess I went through.
I no longer use Copernic Agent, since I no longer use Windows. I used it for years and never had a problem. I would suspect that what ever problem appeared, it was Windows related and not Copernic. It is still on my XP system and if I bring up XP, it still is the search engine I use.
It is strange that you had any updates to Copernic. I think I had only one upgrade since 2002. Now I had many upgrades to Copernic Desktop which I also liked better than Google desktop.
Sorry, I didn’t specify. Mine was Copernic Desktop which the updates tied into.
Ah. That makes more sense to me.