dtSearch

What do you like best?

This tool can handle large amounts of data and indexes quickly. Search results are very good and consistent, finding things that would be very difficult to search for in other tools. I work as a proposal writer and my group at a former company began using this back in the '90s, and never looked back. Far better search capabilities than any of the "proposal" software tools I have used, and makes them unnecessary for the most part. Handles most file types and will index embedded documents (and documents embedded in an embedded document).

Includes proximity searching, which is highly useful, including the ability to set proximity order if necessary. Also searches using Boolean constraints, etc.

What do you dislike?

There are a few features I wish they would add:

1. The ability to turn off searching in embedded documents on a per search basis

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Recommendations to others considering the product:

Get it. Inexpensive, but awesome piece of software!

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Much faster searching, and the ability to search by proximity are really great features. RegEx searching is also useful. Iwas even able to get it to run on my Mac using WineBottler. I highly recommend dtSearch!