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Google Desktop VS dtsearch

Compare Google Desktop VS dtsearch and see what are their differences

Google Desktop logo Google Desktop

The power of Google on your desktop.

dtsearch logo dtsearch

dtSearch - The Smart Choice for Text Retrieval since 1991.
  • Google Desktop Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-12-02
  • dtsearch Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-10-19

Google Desktop videos

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dtsearch videos

Creating a Personal dtSearch Index

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

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Google Desktop and dtsearch)
File Manager
18 18%
82% 82
Mac
100 100%
0% 0
Note Taking
0 0%
100% 100
Clipboard Manager
18 18%
82% 82

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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.

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

dtsearch mentions (0)

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

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

FileLocator - FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc.

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