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Those of you who attended UKeiG's event on Desktop Search on June 14th will not be surprised to learn that X1 (http://www.x1.com/) have upstaged Yahoo Desktop and made their own product available free of charge. You may recall that I commented on the lack of significant updates in Yahoo's DS over the last 18 months, and that Martin White passed on some industry gossip concerning the relationship between Yahoo and X1 (Yahoo has licensed in X1's technology for its desktop search). X1 are now offering X1 Enterprise Client (formerly X1 Desktop Search) free of charge. If you have tried Yahoo DS then the X1 interface will look very familiar, but there have been improvements in X1's. More file formats are supported (a full list is at http://www.x1.com/products/viewable_file_formats.html), it indexes Open Document Format files, and Thunderbird email is now fully supported. Thunderbird emails are previewed as separate messages in X1 whereas Yahoo displays the whole of the inbox containing the relevant message. I found, though, that X1 was highly selective in choosing which Thunderbird inboxes and folders to index so it misses about 80% of my emails. I cannot find any clues as to why this is happening and X1 does appear to have finished indexing my PC's hard drive. Another negative for me is that it does not index removable drives so the data on my 250 GB USB drive remains a mystery to X1. All of which means that I shall not be changing my verdict of June the 14th: the top three desktop search tools for me are still - in alphabetical order - Copernic, Exalead and ISYS. -- Karen Blakeman, UKeiG Management Committee mailto:[log in to unmask] t: +44 118 947 2256 f: +44 20 8020 0253 m: +44 7764 936733 88 Star Road, Caversham, Berkshire, RG4 5BE