The Power of Desktop Search – X1 Enterprise
Software June 29th, 2006Time for Windows users to rejoice!
X1 Technologies has released its X1 Enterprise Client (formerly X1 Desktop Edition), previously $US75, for free download.
X1 Enterprise Client is a full-featured desktop search application aimed at organisations and enterprise use, with a focus on information security.
It indexes an extraordinary 370 file types including many not generally supported in desktop search apps, such as Adobe Indesign, Microsoft Access databases, vcard files, and more. It also has support for all the regular formats and programs you’d expect: emails, files, documents, attachments, pictures, music files, tasks, and calendar items.
One of the slickest features of this desktop search tool is its ability to preview almost any file type immediately on search.
X1 has close ties with Yahoo. In fact Yahoo Desktop Search is a stripped-down, Yahoo-branded version of X1, with some bundled indexing of Yahoo web services. The company has made the Enterprise Client free of charge thanks to an ad-revenue sharing deal with Yahoo.
This new release is freely available from X1 Technologies’ website.
Give it a try and compare it to other good desktop search utilities, such as the famous Google Desktop, and later let us know your thoughts on it by posting your comments below.
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July 2nd, 2006 at 3:35 pm
I’ve tried the X1 enterprise server before and found that it was brilliant – but unfortunatly too expensive for what we were looking to index (Source Control Repository and licensing works on a number of files indexed basis, ouch.)
Will have to see how it challenges the Google Desktop although I have to admit I’m kind of partial to the widgets in the GD sidebar!
July 3rd, 2006 at 9:15 pm
So far have good impressions of it except it hangs when trying to point it at Lotus Notes (which it supposedly supports).
So no email searching for now….
July 5th, 2006 at 12:49 am
That is strange. try running application in debug mode, that is via CLI (command prompt) and see what is the output for feedback. Since I have never used LN, I am not of big help.