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X1 Search 04.08

X1 Search 04.08

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Jeff Bertolucci

on 10/11/2004

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The good: Blazingly fast searches; searches contents of e-mail attachments.

The bad: Expensive; some search fields hidden by file viewer.

The bottom line: This standalone desktop search tool, X1 Search, is blazingly fast but costs about $100 more than the nearest competitor. In our opinion, the free apps perform just as well.

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Reviewed by:
Jeff Bertolucci
Edited by:
Robert Vamosi
Reviewed on: 10/11/2004
Released on: 09/17/2004

Desktop search tools don't get any faster than X1 Search, a scorchingly swift file finder from X1 Technologies. Unlike Lookout, which resides inside Outlook, or HotBot Desktop, which attaches to an Internet Explorer toolbar, X1 Search runs as a standalone utility that loads at Windows start-up. To use it, you click the icon in the taskbar, or you can dock X1 to the desktop (our preferred method), in which case X1 appears as a toolbar at the top of the screen. But in our opinion, you can find comparable results with free apps, such as Copernic Desktop Search.

X1 installs in a few minutes. It proceeds to index every file and e-mail on your PC, a system-slowing process that could take several hours on gargantuan hard drives but worked quickly for us, indexing 7GB of data on our test system in less than 5 minutes. It also indexes the contents of e-mail attachments, an important feature that Lookout doesn't offer.

X1 Search finds files, e-mail, and attachments within seconds. It's scorchingly fast but pricey for a search utility.

File searches are instantaneous--almost too fast. X1 is like a hyperactive Labrador retriever trying to snap the ball from your hand before you throw it. Enter the letter c in X1's search window, for instance, and the program immediately lists every file on your hard drive that contains the letter c. As you add letters, X1 lists potential matches on the fly. A file viewer displays contains of each match.

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