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dtsearch VS Google Desktop

Compare dtsearch VS Google Desktop and see what are their differences

dtsearch logo dtsearch

dtSearch - The Smart Choice for Text Retrieval since 1991.

Google Desktop logo Google Desktop

The power of Google on your desktop.
  • dtsearch Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-10-19
  • Google Desktop Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-12-02

dtsearch videos

Creating a Personal dtSearch Index

More videos:

  • Tutorial - dtSearch tutorial video 1
  • Review - DtSearch Desktop / Engine 7.96.8661 + Crack 2020

Google Desktop videos

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to dtsearch and Google Desktop)
File Manager
84 84%
16% 16
Note Taking
100 100%
0% 0
Mac
0 0%
100% 100
Clipboard Manager
84 84%
16% 16

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Google Desktop seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

dtsearch mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of dtsearch yet. Tracking of dtsearch recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Google Desktop mentions (1)

  • Unable to search for 'Word' documents that have content in headers/footers. They just don't appear.
    Google used to have a desktop product… but that was a long time ago (http://desktop.google.com). Depending on how technical you are, there is Elasticsearch and Tika that can crawl office documents. Source: over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dtsearch and Google Desktop, you can also consider the following products

DocFetcher - DocFetcher is a portable German/English open source desktop search application.

SwiftSearch - SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need...

Recoll - Recoll is a desktop full-text search tool. Recoll finds keywords inside documents as well as file names.

Everything by Voidtools - Everything. Locate files and folders by name instantly. Everything. Small installation file. Clean and simple user interface.

Advanced Recent Access - Advanced Recent Access is designed to see more properties of your recent used resources (files and directories). Key features: can see more properties of the recent resources, such as path, size, type, date modified and date created. And more.

Advanced File Finder - Find, copy, rename files with specific names, properties, text / binary content