X1 Search Reviews & Product Details - Page 4

X1 makes it so quick and easy searching for an email, regardless of the search term I'm inputting. I like multi color use of different words searched for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost for X1 for some people may be excessive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Layout and navigation is so much better than Win Search

More reliable than any other tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some times the behaviour is not what I expected

i. "Don’t scan when in use" does not work - so it slows the machines

ii. Setting the scanning frequency to 180 min, reverts to every 120min

iii. Other processes spawn when X1 scanning + Win Search Indexer goes crazy - again this slows the machines

iv. Slow to start up on hot key press

I cant see the reason for "cancelled" or "error" indexing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customer Service is as good as the best I've received from any software provider. For an individual user, whose revenue to X! is trivial at best, when I have an occasional question, I get a complete answer is short order. No need to follow up to try to re-explain or restate my question. If you are lucky enough to get Chris Wheaton as your rep, you will have an articulate, responsive expert in your corner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If X! finds a search term in an document, it seems to be necessary to open the document. If there were a way when I move through a list to show the search term word in a highlighted preview window, that would speed things up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris is always helpful and understanding of my issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I have to deleted corrupted index files and start fresh. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its simplicity. I can usually find what I am looking for in a haystack of over 100,000 items in seconds with just a few keystrokes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hard to find something to dislike. About once every 3 years I have to reinstall due to some glitch, prob due to change of other software etc. Not really a problem! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using X1 search since it was known as Yahoo Desktop Search. It's one of the few programs I've found that will search for data embedded within hundreds of different file formats. You just select the network shares, local folders and outlook files want to add the index, and forget about it. From there you can filter the search results in a multitude of ways - file type, date, filename, size, source etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't really think of much I would change about the software. I immediately saved the cost of the license by saving an hour of time searching for a CAD file I knew existed on the network somewhere that contained a certain text string. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

X1 is a powerful search tool that works.

Even compared to good search tools, like Thunderbird email search, X1 is quicker and more complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

X1 is very demanding on the PC. Myself and colleagues had to upgrade RAM and to full SSDs to get X1 to work smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

X1 Desktop Search helps to find the files, emails, and contacts that are stored on one's hard drive or SSD. After entering text in the search box, X1 consults its index to find "hits" in the file contents or file name.

I've been using X1 for about seven years. Whenever I've had problems with the software, customer support has always been responsive, even if you don't subscribe to the $19.95/year for premium support. Once, the support representative conferenced in one of the developers in order to resolve an indexing problem I had. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would hope that, at some point in the future, X1 would incorporate frequency of the query terms into its search algorithm. For example, a document that contains more occurrences of a query term should be ranked higher than a document that has a lower frequency of the query terms. Right now, the results are ranked by date, not query term frequency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've used X1 for over 10 years. Every. Single. Day. It's the most useful app I have on my laptop. At one point, I lost my license. (Totally my fault due to a switch in jobs/computers.). I had *no problem* buying another one and gladly would have paid much more for the license if I needed to. It's just one of the most elegant software solutions I've ever used. Oh, and they have killer customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing that I can really think of. There are other features and products that they have developed but none of them are of particular interest to me. The basic, default install gets me everything I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As we continue to collect data in all forms, e-mail, letters, data sheets, etc., X1 Search allows phenomenal recall of what you need when you need it. In a perfect world, all of your materials are appropriately filed in the right folders but we don't live in a perfect world. Being able to quickly bring up X1 Search and find what you need in an expeditious manner and then being able to manipulate it as you need saves times and effort. I cannot relay how many times materials we thought were lost were located by X1. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Given my experience with similar products, including those "built" into provided operating systems and software, I do not find any component lacking. Like some programs, the portal can be tweaked but I am confident that X1 continues to update as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.