Anytxt Desktop Search might be a bit more popular than Google Desktop. We know about 1 link to it since March 2021 and only 1 link to Google Desktop. 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.
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
For something that could look into the files itself, you need something that can extract the text and index it. Something like AnyTXT, or Copernic can build the index, but then you need to script the renaming of files that match your search criteria. Source: over 1 year ago
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