Re: Searches...

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Posted by srdiamond15
2005-06-24 17:07:22

>The best free indexed search program IMHO is Redtree’s Wilbur, which astonishingly manages to index almost as much as dtSearch. In fact it is so good as an indexer of text that I am surprised more people don’t use it. Not fancy enough, I guess :-).

Bad name, Wilbur. <g> How does Wilbur compare to something like Google, MSN or Yahoo Desktop Search? It sounds like it indexes a lot more than they do. Is it slower to index, perhaps?

I remember trying Wilbur about a year ago. I don’t think I was even aware of its doing indexing. Maybe I didn’t set it that way, if there’s an option. My main impression—based perhaps on faulty usage—was that its searches proceed glacially.

Stephen Diamond

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