Trying Lookeen Desktop Search

December 7, 2015 John Obeto

Desktop search in Windows has been that one thing that continually annoys me.

It is ineffective, and basically, never works well.

Leastways, it never works well enough for me.

Don’t get me started about the Indexing Service….

…which kept on rebuilding the index anytime I started Microsoft Office Outlook up.

At which time search results couldn’t be presented.

I took email repositories of the list, just so I could locate a few files.

Meanwhile, I was under the impression that with Cortana, Windows 10 would gain new smarts, and perform magic.

It does not.

My primary problem with Cortana on the desktop is that it is so focused on bringing you all the dung on the Internet that it does not do a good job of delivering relevant search of your local device.

Jarringly, there isn’t a way to forcibly limit all searches to the local device or LAN only.

That makes it rather useless to me: I’ll ask for an Internet-wide search when I need it. Thank you.

That said though, I find I still need a decent search product for my email.

I will be trying Lookeen, from the eponymous company these next several weeks.

I will circle back with my experiences, first in a preview a few days away, and a detailed review shortly thereafter.

Thanks to Eric E. of Lookeen for bringing this product to my consciousness.

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