Alternative to Lookout? (3rd Party Saerch Utility)

[Dave]

Hi there,

I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 about a month ago. When I first
started outlook I was saddened to find that my third party search utility,
Lookout, would no longer work. Does anyone know if there's a good alternative
to Lookout?

I've given the built in search a fair chance, and I've even upgraded it by
installing the windows desktop search utility. Unfortunately, I find that
both are inadequate, and are not as good as the Lookout tool that I
previously used.

I tried the Google Desktop search for a while. That wasn't bad. However
within 4 days it had created a 3 GB index file on my machine. That's a lot of
disk space to just index my email.

If anyone has suggestions, I'm open. I've seen a serious drop in
productivity since installing Office 2007 and losing my search utililty.

Thanks!

- Dave

 

[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

You'd think when they bought Lookout that Microsoft would have been able to
at least make something as good.
There is Copernic. Fast, light footprint.

I found another recently in beta, but haven't tried it yet:
http://www.lookeen.net/

 

[Pat Willener]

Lookout is now part of Windows Desktop Search.

 

[ChameleonDevil]

Try Windows Desktop Search.

It indexes your email as well as documents on your computer.

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Dear Pat,

Lookout is now part of Windows Desktop Search.

Windows Desktop only supports "Personal Folder" and "Personal Mailboxes", so
it is not the same.

Windows Desktop search has much more limitations (our experiences).

LookOut supports also additional "shared" PST files, so there is a big
different beween LookOut and Windows Desktop search.

 

[Brian Tillman]

LookOut supports also additional "shared" PST files, so there is a
big different beween LookOut and Windows Desktop search.

Ther's no such thing as a shared PST, since PSTs can't be shared.

 

[Dave]

Hi Pat.

Lookout was acquired by Microsoft, yes. And some of the components in the
Windows Desktop search are likely similar. However, I find that the Windows
Desktop Search utility is not the same as Lookout.

The WDS utility just isn't as good.

- Dave

 

[Dave]

Hi Chameleon,

As I mentioned in my original post:

I've given the built in search a fair chance, and I've even upgraded it by
installing the windows desktop search utility. Unfortunately, I find that
both are inadequate, and are not as good as the Lookout tool that I
previously used.

Thanks for the suggestion though. I appreciate the reply.

- Dave

 

[Dave]

All good points.

Also, I miss having:
- a seperate window for search results.
- the accuracy of results that Lookout provided.
- the speed that lookout provided.
- the ability to search a range of dates (and not just the few options
that outlook provides, I mean I want the ability to search for all email
during a 3 day period in October 2003)

The seperate search box is probably the biggest thing for me though.

 

[Lysia]

What happens if you absolutely *do not want* the Windows Desktop Resource Hog
(I mean search)? I upgraded to Outlook 07 yesterday, installed their
resource pig of an "add-in" for the search capability, and now my machine
crawls. It's not an old machine either, it's a pretty powerful desktop
running XP Pro. And I even configured it to *only* search my email - I
really do not want my documents indexed, nor do I need it.

The long and short is, if I cannot search without the ridiculous desktop
search application then Outlook 07 is totally useless to me. There has to be
a 3rd party alternative somewhere...

 

[Lysia]

Update: Installed the add-in mentioned above "Lookeen"
(http://www.lookeen.net/ ), and so far I'm thrilled. Once indexed, results
are lightning fast, and overall machine performance has not degraded in the
slightest. Glad I uninstalled thw Windows Search utility and went for this
instead!

 

[GandalfGris]

There's a search app called Xobni. It's an Outlook mail organizer and it's
quite fast and useful, but as far as I know, its search feature can only find
exact matches.

Ric

 

[Jason Sedwig]

I had a look to many apps, including X1, Xobni etc.

So far, Lookeen is by far the most reliable tool, when it comes to daily
business!

 

[Jason Sedwig]

Thanks for the Tip Lysia, I use LOOKEEN every day!
I have seen many tools before - but Lookeen is most reliable!

Thanks

 

[Ethan]

We in our company also work with Lookeen and we all love it!
It´s such a great help in everdays business life and you could save a lot of
time!
Also very helpul is that it works with exchange server and also is a desktop
search what a lot of other search tool couldn´t do!!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

A lot of former lookout users love lookeen - so it would be my top
recommendation for anyone who used lookout.

Other search tools are listed at http://www.slipstick.com/addins/search.asp

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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[Michael Swain]

Just downloaded and installed Lookeen at http://www.Lookeen.com and it's
nice.. Looks and acts a lot like Lookout. The trial is free and then there's
a cost - I have not investigated that cost yet.

-Mike