LiveWords, Mozilla Thunderbird support, search IMs from Yahoo! Messenger, search contacts...
New in v1.2: LiveWords feature for
finding information related to your desktop content, support for Mozilla Thunderbird (search emails and attachments); Release Notes - Last Updated: 09.28.05
New in v1.1 Beta: Ability to search your instant messages from Yahoo! Messenger and your contacts from Yahoo! Address Book; Release Notes - Last Updated: 03.24.05 Pros: Extensive file support, versatile preview pane lets you view and often act on files without needing to launch host applications, useful search sorting capabilities, ability to search compressed files
Cons: Currently lacks support for indexing Web pages and IM chats, two important features found in competing clients such as Google Desktop Search; will only index local drives (as opposed to shared network drives or folders); takes an inordinately long time to initialize
