OT: Search Engines for PC Searching?

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Does there exist a search engine for the PC that allows searching your hard-drive for files that contain MULTIPLE words, like Google can do on the web?

...Jim Thompson

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bg · Answer

Win 98 already has "find files" built in. I'm sure the other windowsversions do to.Start - Find - Files or folders - fill in your search criteriabg

Jim Thompson · Answer

You missed the "multiple" words requirement.BTW, How is it you're still using Win98?  Biggest POS ever written.                                        ...Jim Thompson-- |  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     ||  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      ||  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    ||  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             ||  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  ||                  |    1962     |             I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

John Woodgate · Answer

I read in  that Jim Thompson wrote (in ) about 'OT:  Search Engines for PC Searching?', on Thu, 17 Mar2005:Google Desktop Search.-- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. The good news is that nothing is compulsory.The bad news is that everything is prohibited. Also see

JeffM · Answer

Re: Woodgate's suggestion?&q=site:The Global Regular Expression Parser has been around for decades.?&q=grep+Syntax+munge+gawk+-MUNGE-ScriptFile+-NTXPThrough redirection of output, it is possible to do recursive searches.

JeffM · Answer

Damn. Forgot the big one: review--includes Ask Jeeves & HotBot as well.)Mentions AOL & Copernic.....and another caveat:

qrk · Answer

If you can deal with regular expression, PowerGREP is a pretty nicesearch tool. You can do GREP and SED operations from the pretty GUI. your not familiar with regex, then ignore this suggestion.Mark

Jim Thompson · Answer

"GREP" is such an appropriately sounding name ;-)Actually, Mark, I use REGEX from within UltraEdit to auto-edit HSpicemodels to PSpice format, so I'll give it a look-see.Thanks!                                        ...Jim Thompson-- |  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     ||  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      ||  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    ||  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             ||  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  ||                  |    1962     |             I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Adrian Jansen · Answer

The Boxer text editor allows this sort of search.  And its a great programming editor.Pity it cant search binary files, like PDF, as well.-- Regards,Adrian Jansen           adrianjansen at internode dot on dot netDesign Engineer         J & K Micro SystemsMicrocomputer solutions for industrial controlNote reply address is invalid, convert address above to machine form.

Jim Thompson · Answer

Thanks!  That looks excellent!  Just ordered the Pro version.                                        ...Jim Thompson-- |  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     ||  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      ||  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    ||  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             ||  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  ||                  |    1962     |             I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Robert · Answer

Woody Lenord has an $9.95 ebook on the topic of desktop searching tools.

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He mentions ones that are out there free as: Google desktop

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Copernic Desktop

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MSN desktop

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Lookout But this seems to just search MS Outlook email files

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Yahoo Search

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