The company announced the Copernic Desktop Search, which pre-indexes the contents files, emails and attachments and allows users to run a query in under a second. Popular office document formats, music, image and video files are supported.
The free software also features a pre-viewer that shows a snapshot of your results before you pull up the full document. Previous versions of Copernic just dealt with web search, conducting a meta-search on popular search engines.
As we reported three weeks ago, the Quebec-based firm brought in CEO David Burns recently, who headed Fast Search & Transfer and ultimately sold that company’s web search portal to Overture, now Yahoo.
Burns is looking at expanding Copernic’s distribution channels – looking at portals or bundling – in order to prevent the company’s eight years of search experience being sidelined by the entrance of Microsoft and Google to the market.
