Google Desktop Alternatives

X1’s Lightning-Fast Search Software. Premium Alternative to Windows Desktop and Outlook Search.

XSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didn’t provided.

Find Any File is a program for Apple’s Mac OS X that lets you search for files on your disks.

Archivarius 3000 is a full-featured application to search documents and e-mail on the desktop computer, your local network and removable drives (CD, DVD). The documents can be searched by content, the same as with Internet search engines.

Instantly find files, e-mails, and attachments stored anywhere on your PC with the free Copernic.

SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need on your Windows machine without ever requiring you to index your drives. Most search utilities that achieve similar speeds do so by indexing drives while the computer is idle, but because idleness detection is so difficult to get right, in practice they end up slowing down the whole system just to speed up search.

A fast and next-generation desktop search and productivity tool for standard and virtual desktops, for private and enterprise search requirements. Finds documents, outlook archives and e-mails, contacts, appointments, folders, etc.

RecentX gives you fastest access to your files, folders, programs, websites and also clipboard history in Windows. What’s special is that it automatically remembers your recent and favorite items so that you can access them faster than searching all the files, folders etc. You can assign tags to all of them. You will be surprised to see how much hassle it saves and makes computing really enjoyable. We have stuffed this app with innovations that will boost your productivity.

Omnilauncher for Linux to help you quickly find and run apps and do other useful things.

Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently.

Alfred is a quicklaunch application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web.

Rainmeter allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters.