Blinkx

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Jeff Bertolucci

on 10/11/2004

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CNET editors' rating: 3.5 stars Very good
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The good: Clever Quick Launch search bar integrates with some Windows programs.

The bad: Inadequate file viewer; needs to support more file formats.

The bottom line: Blinkx offers only a three-line summary of a file, not a preview. Wait for the next version of this desktop search tool.

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CNET editors' review

CNET editors' rating: 3.5 stars Very good
Detailed editors' rating

Reviewed by:
Jeff Bertolucci
Edited by:
Robert Vamosi
Reviewed on: 10/11/2004
Released on: 07/26/2004

Editor's note: Since our review first appeared, Blinkx has added the capability to search your entire hard drive and has added many popular file formats to its search engine. The review has been altered to reflect these changes.

Blinkx Desktop Search, available as a free download, earns an A for originality, but a C for usability. Like Copernic Desktop Search and X1 Search, Blinkx is hot-rod quick, displaying searches on your hard drive and Web matches as fast as you can type. For example, if you had a file on your hard drive called myfinances.doc, as you typed m, then y, then f, the list of possible matches would decrease. Problem is, Blinkx displays a pop-up summary of a document's contents rather than using a full-fledged file viewer like those found in competing search tools. The latter helps you avoid opening duplicate files by allowing you to see the contents before opening them.