Talk about what is now information technologies and the endless growth of the amount of data available to both an individual and society, there are many problems with information processing and retrieval - this is already sacrilege. Who just does not raise this topic. And in order not to load you with subjective and, partly, objective judgments gleaned from various information sources regarding the problem, I will go directly to its solution. Today we'll talk about search. That is, about programs and serious information systems that search for the documents and data we need.
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Not so long ago, when the trees were large, and there was not much information even in the local network of the enterprise, any search was carried out by a banal search through a handful of available files and a sequential check of their names and contents. Such a search is called direct, and programs (utilities) that use direct search technology are traditionally present in all operating systems and toolkits. But, even the power of modern computers is not enough for a fast and adequate search in huge amounts of data during direct search. Going through a couple of hundred documents on disk and searching in a huge library and several dozen mailboxes are two different things. Therefore, direct search programs today are clearly fading into the background - if it comes about universal remedies.
Of course, in the corporate sector, this type of search has not been in demand for a long time. The volumes are not the same. And, therefore, for many years now, and recently it has been unambiguous, technologies capable of performing fast and exact search documents of various formats and from various sources are more than relevant. Not so long ago, Microsoft's "dad" Bill Gates, having envied, apparently, the phenomenal success of the Internet search engine Google, at one of the press conferences announced the desire of software (and not only) to promote, develop and deepen the creation of search engines and technologies in every possible way. But it is too early to create any phenomenally working program from Microsoft or a competitive server on the Internet (MSN still falls short of Google). Therefore, let us turn to the already existing developments. Index, query, relevance
At the heart of modern technology are two fundamental processes. First, it indexes the available information and processes the request with the subsequent output of the results. As for the first, any program (be it a desktop search engine, corporate information system, or Internet search engine) creates its own search area. That is, it processes documents and forms an index of these documents (an organized structure that contains information about the processed data). In the future, it is the created index that is used for work - quickly obtaining a list of necessary documents according to the request. The rest, although by no means simple in terms of technology, is quite understandable to the average user. The program processes the request (for a keyword phrase) and displays a list of documents that contain this keyword phrase. Since the information is contained in a structured index, the processing of the query is much (tens and hundreds of times!) Faster than in the case of direct search (the selection of documents is carried out not by searching through files, but by analyzing text information in the index).
The program displays the found documents in the resulting list according to relevance - compliance of the document with the query text. In various technologies, of course, there are different methods of searching and determining the relevance of the document (the number of word "occurrences" and its frequency of mention in the document, the ratio of these parameters to the total number of words in the document, the distance between the words of the query phrase in the files to be searched, and so on). Based on these parameters, the "weight" of the document is determined and, depending on it, a particular file appears in the list of results at a certain position. In the case of Internet searches, the situation is even more complicated. Indeed, in this case, many other factors must be taken into account (Google's Page Rank is an example). But this is a topic for a separate article, so we will not touch the Internet.
This article discusses the capabilities of several popular search programs that can boast of both decent speeds and good functionality. But bragging in advertising brochures is one thing, but withstanding the gaze of an expert is quite another. And experts were found neither more nor less than a full office of those who like to dig into the software for its usability. On a test computer (Athlon 2.2 MHz, with 1 GB of RAM, 160 GB IDE hard drive Seagate at 7200 rpm and windows system XP) a set of programs was installed: dtSearch Desktop, Snoop Prof Deluxe, Google Desktop Search, SearchInform, Copernic Desktop Search, ISYS Desktop. For the tests, a text base of documents in the formats doc, txt and html common the size is neither more nor less, but 20 gigabytes. A group of comrades, led by your humble servant, tested, compared and shared their subjective impressions on each software. Read a summary of the findings below. dtSearch Desktop
A program that claims, according to the developers, to be the fastest, most convenient and best search engine. As, in general, and all the others from this review. DtSearch's interface is quite simple, but some windows or tabs are somewhat overloaded with elements, which gives the impression of being difficult to use. But in fact, there are no particular difficulties. The only really unpleasant moment is the lack of support for the Russian language software (despite the fact that the program can search for documents in several languages, its interface is exclusively English).
But dtSearch is one of the few programs that can index web pages to a user-specified "depth" (albeit taking into account the "additional purchase" in the dtSearch Spider add-on kit). This is in addition to supporting files on disk of various text formats and emails from mailbox Outlook. At the same time, the program does not know how to work with databases, which are such a tasty morsel for search engines because of the large amounts of information in them, and widespread use in companies, and therefore in corporate networks. The indexing speed of dtSearch documents was at the proper level. Looking ahead, I will say that this program coped with indexing a given amount of information on a level with another competitor - iSYS - and shared with him the second place in the list of the most fast systems... DtSearch indexed the test 20 gigabytes of information in 6 hours 13 minutes, creating an index of 7.9 GB for the needs of subsequent searches.
As for the search capabilities, here they are at the proper level. First, there is morphological search in dtSearch (search for a word in all its morphological forms). Using this opportunity, you free yourself from, say, such thoughts as "in what case was a certain word used in the document I need?" The use of morphological search is almost always justified, therefore it should be present in any professional search engine.
Sound search is a non-standard feature even for professional search engines. Its essence lies in the fact that the program will search for words that sound the same as the word you entered. And best of all, this feature works for the Russian language too! For example, typing the word "ear" in a search query, you will see in the result not only the words "ear", but also "ear".
Error correction search is a very important feature. It is used to search for words containing syntax errors - these can be both typos and errors in documents obtained using character recognition systems, for example. A simple example - you are looking for the word keyboard. Some document contains the word "keyboard", it is obvious that in fact this is the word "keyboard", just a person typed the text. Now, a search with error correction, this will detect and include the document with the word "keypad" in the result. Also in dtSearch there is a setting that allows you to determine the degree of possible error characters.
Search using synonyms. This feature uses a list of synonyms for different words. So, for example, by entering the word "fast", the program will also find the words "fast" and others that are synonyms for the word "fast", if they are, of course, present in the list of synonyms. A ready-made list of synonyms is not supplied with the dtSearch program, however, it is possible to use the lists on the Internet (accordingly, a connection is required, which is not always convenient), or you can create your own list of synonyms.
In addition to the listed features, dtSearch can search using phrases consisting of words connected by logical operations. Each word in the query can be assigned its own "weight", that is, significance. A useful option is to use a dictionary consisting of insignificant words in order not to take them into account when searching, but this dictionary is also empty and you will have to fill it in yourself.
Next, we will consider the capabilities of the program when working in a network. As a matter of fact, dtSearch does not offer any specific possibilities for working with the network. However, it is quite possible to use it online. Alternatively, you can create some kind of index and put it in a public (shared) folder. The program itself can be installed for each user on a computer, or it can also be laid out on a shared folder and created in a special way for each user separately using command line parameters, the purpose of which is described in the help file supplied with the program. Also, it is possible to automatically install the program on the network using an MSI file. This will take into account the settings for each connected user.
In general, this is a good program from the category of professional search engines. It can claim to be a good mark, but gaining trust and respect from users can be difficult for dtSearch due to some factors (not everything is smooth with the interface, Russian users are deprived, there are no bright features for working with the network). As for the search for documents directly, the program had no overlaps with the Russian text. As there were none with the declared morphology, or with a fuzzy search. The system quite adequately found required documents and by a simple query in one word and by using a couple of paragraphs of a document as a key phrase.
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Distribution size: 23 Mb
Based on the name, you can guess that there is support for the Russian language in this program. This is already nice. As for the interface, in general, it is somewhat unusual, but it looks very attractive. Convenience is another matter. A very controversial criterion, but still, probably, a multi-window solution is not the best option (a request is entered in one window, the result is displayed in another, and the like).
Snoop uses all the same indexes to perform fast searches, but indexing is significantly slower than other programs. This is very strange, especially considering that the processing capabilities search queries it is very weak, which means that the structure of the index is not complicated. Most likely, this is due to unoptimized algorithms. This program turned out to be a clear outsider of indexing and search speeds: the time spent on creating an index is six times longer than that of the same dtSearch and iSYS. Indexing 20 gigabytes of text for the bloodhound took 38 hours 46 minutes of work. And the created "search area" occupied the same size on the hard disk as the original data with a slight minus - 19 gigabytes.
The snoop can be presented as an alternative to the standard Windows search, it is hardly capable of more. The fact that the primary task of the Bloodhound is the simplest file search indicates not only a small number of functions for analyzing the text of search queries and an advanced search by file attributes, but even a results window that displays direct links to the files found, as well as to folders containing these files. The results window is not very informative in the sense that you can read the entire found file only by running it, that is, it does not have a built-in file viewer. But an excerpt from the file where the search word was found is displayed, in general, such a display scheme is very similar to Internet search engines.
Speaking about specific possibilities for processing search queries, it is worth noting that there is no such thing as "search for text", the maximum that you can search for is a phrase, if only because there is no multi-line text input field. Nevertheless, you can analyze the entered phrase, and the Snoop offers us a standard search set here: logical operations, search by mask and quote search ... not a lot. The program contains some rudiments of morphological search, but, probably, so crude that it rather interferes with correct work (during the tests, many overlaps with incorrect use of morphology were noticed).
But the program allows you to specify when searching for file attributes (document date, file name, folder name), and in these queries you can also use the same search set. Also, you can search for letters by specifying parameters (From, Subject .... etc.).
So, we figured out with the search itself, what else is interesting about the program, for which it received so many awards, according to information from the official website? It’s hard to say what is so special about it, most likely, the Snooper's interface disposes to itself (just outwardly, not to mention usability).
Index operations are fairly standard, but the nice thing is the ability to update indexes on a schedule. Moreover, indexes can also be used on the web. From now on, more details are needed.
Despite the primitiveness of search queries, the program can be used to find files, so its use can be justified in networks. Albeit with a big stretch, since in a large network, the priority task is to quickly search for data using complex search queries due to the huge amount of information - but there are clearly problems with the search speed and the program. I must say that the Bloodhound's work with the network is well thought out. A separate application is specially designed for this - Snoop Server. It works in the same way as a simple Snooper (they have the same search engine), only for documents located on a central server or on shared resources on the corporate network. Snoop Server creates new indexes on shared resources, or uses previously created ones. Any user on the corporate network can connect to the Snoop Server and use it to access any document (located in the current index) using an Internet browser. Agree, this scheme is extremely convenient: it turns out that files on your own network can be searched in the same way as information on the Internet through, for example, Google.
Evaluating all the advantages and disadvantages of this program, the conclusion suggests itself that for corporate networks its capabilities, most likely, will not be enough (despite even a good organization of work with the network), but for a home computer or even for home network it, in principle, may come up. Although neither the speed of work, nor the search capabilities are encouraging ...
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Distribution size: 6 MbGoogle Desktop Search + GDS Enterprise 
Of course, we could not ignore such an eminent developer. The name Google already says a lot. The people who have been using the most powerful Internet search engine for years will surely, without a single doubt, decide to install this particular search engine on their computer. Think about it: Google on your home computer! However, without succumbing to provocations with a widely promoted brand, let's try soberly, and most importantly objectively, to consider the possibilities of a "desktop" search engine from Google.
The first thing that catches your eye is the absence of its own shell for the program. Google Desktop Search is still in the browser window, therefore, the entire interface of the desktop version got the software from the older Internet brother. Good or bad is a controversial issue: someone likes the minimalism in the design of this search engine, while someone wants to see a full-fledged application filled with all kinds of buttons and so on.
What catches your eye immediately after the design? And the fact that this same Google Desktop Search begins to index everything on your computer, without any demand! And what's most interesting is that it is impossible to select indexing paths using Google Desktop Search. You will have to download a separate program (TweakGDS), which will allow you to expand somewhat google settings Desktop, including specifying the places required for indexing. Although, until you figure it out, it will already index the standard hard drive, so this setting is needed rather when working with large amounts of data, which is very important when used in corporate networks (Enterprise version). However, it is not a fact that after downloading TweakGDS, your problems will be solved. She needs Microsoft to work. NET Framework and Microsoft Scripting Runtime. Yeah ... the installation, as well as access to the settings, could have been made easier, although perhaps the developers can understand: why write something new, when there is a ready-made search engine, ported it to local computer and let the user "enjoy", and a well-known name will turn "this" into another masterpiece. Come on, let's finish the lyrical digression here and move on to the search.
As for the analysis of search queries and the issuance of results, everything here is absolutely identical to Google on the Internet: the same system for displaying results, the same standard set of logical operations for search queries. In general, Google Desktop Search, like the previous program, is designed exclusively for searching files - of course, it does not have an internal viewer for these files. The number of file formats supported by Google Desktop Search is quite enough, and it's also nice that it searches the visited Internet pages, taking data from the cache. Search and indexing speeds are quite acceptable. True, for home use. Google Desktop Search coped with an impressive 20 gigabytes of text in 8 hours and 17 minutes. To spend a few days processing information from the corporate network of a large enterprise does not smile at any system administrator. On the plus side: the size of the created index turned out to be at the level (4.5 GB) with another search engine tested in this review - SearchInform.
The big advantage (or overlook - you decide) of Google Desktop Search is that it supports plugins that can make a difference. It's another matter that connecting plugins and configuring them complicates the task of installing a search engine so much that you start to wonder if all this is necessary when you can install a normal, full-fledged program in which everything will already be present. After all, to use each feature, you will have to install a new plugin. Even for the program to be able to fully work with archives, a separate gadget is needed. The freeness of all these additional modules fascinates and seduces. However, if you do not take into account the desktop version of the search engine, then competently setting up GDS Enterprise may not be within your power - after all, it is not for nothing that experts from Google offer their services for setting up their own software for your network for only $ 10,000.
If you still master the setup and installation procedure (or pay $ 10,000 to the rapid response team from the Google office), you will understand that the complexity of the installation is more than compensated for by very flexible settings when used in corporate networks. An important aspect of the work of Google Desktop in a corporate network is the use of group policies, which makes it possible to set the settings for each user.
To summarize, it should be said that the most reasonable application for this program is a home or work computer. Indeed, for an ordinary computer, it is enough to simply install the program - it will do the rest itself (it will not even ask you about anything).
Nevertheless, Google Desktop Search Enterprise will be acceptable in cases of urgent need for flexible configuration of network policy for using a search engine, while the processing of search queries will be in second place, and the time (or money) spent on setting up the program will be in the first place. location.
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Distribution kit size with TweakGDS: 1.2 Mb Copernic Desktop Search 
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The program interface evokes extremely positive emotions - everything is done in accordance with generally accepted standards, nothing superfluous, in a word, a pleasant design. Copernic Desktop Search interface will be very easy for a beginner to understand. Although, it is somewhat embarrassing that the designers explicitly created the program interface, taking into account that the program will work in the standard Windows XP theme. When using the classic theme, the program looks less pretty. But this is more a matter of taste.
At the first start, the program offers to create indexes for search. It seemed somewhat unusual that after selecting folders for indexing, the program does not offer to press any button, like "Start indexing", and indexing does not start automatically, only then it was noticed that Copernic was trying to start indexing while the computer was idle. You will have to dig a little in the program options to configure everything properly. It should be noted that there are quite wide possibilities for configuring automatic index creation: built-in scheduler, indexing during computer idle time, in the background, with low priority. Indexing was not very fast - 10 hours 51 minutes - this is slower than in other search engines (except for the Snooper, Copernic is still an order of magnitude faster than iSleuthHound Technologies' development.
Now about the structure of the index. In general, there is nothing special about it. There is a choice of file types, both in a generalized form and in a detailed one. That is, initially you can choose what you want to index - Documents, Images, Videos, Music. On the other tab of the options window, it will be possible to select specific file types by extension. Additionally, you can configure the index so that, for example, images less than 16x16 in size are not indexed or sound files less than 10 seconds long are not indexed. In addition to indexing files from folders, Copernic can work with emails and contacts from the address book Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express, it is possible to index Favorites and History from Internet Explorer.
Search capabilities are very weak here. During the tests, it was even revealed that the program does not search for documents in txt and html formats in Russian, allowing you to find them only by titles, and by no means by content. The only thing that the program provides to improve search efficiency is the use of a standard set of logical operations, and even then, this possibility was discovered experimentally, since it was not documented. By the way, the program's help is also not all right - it is available only via the Internet, which, you see, is very inconvenient, and on the network reference information not too much. Apparently, the developers decided that the simple interface of the program does not imply a normal help. Continuing the conversation about search capabilities, it should be noted that, despite the weak analysis of queries, the program provides an interesting search system - the user can select the type of files (images, videos, music, etc.), enter a search query and select attributes inherent in the selected file type. For example, for sound files, these can be values \u200b\u200bfrom mp3 tags (artist, album, date, etc.), for images, for example, you can choose their size (by resolution), in general, each type has its own settings. After searching for a specific file type, the program will display a very informative list in the results window, and if your request includes files of other types, you can open them by clicking on a specific link.
We should also mention the results display window. The contents of these files are displayed below the list of found files (a similar scheme is often used in mail clients). True, the text can be viewed only in its native format, and there is no plain text display mode, which is not always convenient, since opening a document in this case takes more time. But, given that Copernic is able to search for images and music, it is possible to view these multimedia files.
The basic principles of this program are described, now let's see what Copernic Desktop Search can offer us for working with the network ... In principle, you can watch for a very long time, but you will hardly be able to see anything. In other words, this program was not meant to be networked. Copernic Desktop Search is exclusively a home search engine.
Obviously, the only (most logical) application of this program is a home computer. Here it will quite cope with all the simple search queries of users consisting of one or two words, find the information you need, and the separation of search by file type and support for multimedia files together with background indexing in low priority mode, coupled with a pleasant interface, only give the program strength to gain trust among inexperienced users.
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Distribution size: 2.6 MbISYS Desktop 
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A very powerful program. In terms of the level of equipment with all sorts of functions, it is somewhere near the next search engine in the list SearchInform. Moreover, the size installation file more than 40Mb! It is difficult to say what could have been put into such sizes, because the same SearchInform, with similar functionality, takes 15Mb.
The installation process here is also not very pleasant, or rather not even the installation process. Before downloading the program, you will be asked to register, otherwise you will not. Next, the interface. It is made very nicely, nothing superfluous catches the eye, however - these are the impressions of a person who is already somewhat accustomed to it. It will not be easy for a beginner to figure out where and what is located, where to click and where to finally search. It is highly recommended to read the help before starting work - you will save a lot of nerves and time. Added to everything else is the complete lack of support for the Russian language in the program. Not good. In addition, the windows here are not overloaded with controls, but the price paid for this was the multi-modularity and the use of additional windows. For example, search queries are entered using the launch of one program, and index management is performed using a different program. Search queries are also entered here in separate windows that appear. Which is better - a congested interface or ubiquitous multiple windows - it's hard to say, rather, it's a matter of taste.
With regard to creating indexes, the program provides features to simplify the process of setting options for a new index. These features include several ready-made templates for creating indexes for the folder "My Documents", "Mail", "Mail and Documents", "Specific folder", "Folder with a choice of file types", etc. These templates simplify the creation of indexes on the first stage. The utility for working with indexes has a not very good interface that scares off some complexity (this is a very subjective assessment, to be honest), however, if you look at it, it provides many useful options and in general it is not difficult to use it. ISYS Desktop is able to index data from various data sources, and also provides many flexible settings for such indexing. Additional indexing features include: support for SQL, FTP, TRIM Context, WORLDOX 2002, scripts. When creating an index, if you selected the "Folder with a choice of file types" item, you have the opportunity to select the file types for indexing manually (by extension). I must say that the supported file types are simply a huge number, however, it will not be possible to add your own type (extension) to the existing list. You can also note the presence of an indexing planner. ISYS Desktop took 6 hours and 13 minutes to create an index and process 20 gigabytes of information, eventually showing a good time and the size of the created file - 7.9 GB.
The search capabilities of this program are quite good. The one used in ISYS is much more powerful than the usual support for logical operations. Of the advanced search capabilities, the program offers the use of synonyms, a sort filter (by path, name and file creation date). The set of logical operators is somewhat wider than the standard set. In addition to logical operations, the program allows you to work with many other operators, which, in principle, are capable of replacing some types of search, for example, parsing search can be replaced by using special operators. I was very surprised that there is no search using morphology in the program. This is a serious oversight, as the search efficiency is greatly improved when morphological analysis is used. In addition, there is no list of significant words, but there is an extensive list of meaningless words. Search functions such as "approximate search" and "heuristic analysis" are also announced.
ISYS provides a choice of several types of search queries, namely, types - visual. This is done using different types of windows for entering search queries, however, in fact, no window allows the use of technologies other than those listed above.
The search results are very informative; they are displayed as a list of documents sorted by relevance. Below is a preview of the selected document. Unlike Copernic Desktop Search, preview is only available in plain text, it was not possible to display documents in their native format, be it Word, Html or PDF, although this is not too critical in principle. The program allows you to split the found documents into groups according to certain criteria (by default, they are divided by relevance). You can also view documents that have already been found by choosing separate folders (this is convenient when the result produces a very large number of documents).
The use of the program in a corporate network is also highly justified, since it provides good opportunities for organizing a network search. The search system is based on the creation of a public index that contains indexed data from public network resources.
In fact, the program from ISYS is worthy of attention, at least acquaintance with it. This program is a mature project with a huge number of functions (not always and not for everyone, of course, they are needed, but still). The chances that the program will have some improvements in terms of processing search queries are not known, but at the moment it can be recommended for almost universal use. And given that it is still too heavy for home systems, the main places of its installation are corporate networks.
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Distribution size: 40 MbSearchInform 
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You probably shouldn't start with a description of the SearchInform interface right away. First, you should describe the installation process, or rather one of its details: you cannot install the program without an Internet connection. The fact is that before the first launch, the program requires user registration (free) and sends all the entered data to the server. Apparently, the developers had to take such measures in the fight against piracy, but this did not have a positive effect on the ease of installation.
The program interface is made in compliance with all generally accepted rules, however, at first glance, it is somewhat cumbersome. Using the program for the first time, it seems that it is too complicated, sometimes it is not easy to remember in which menu or in which tab the desired option is located, however, with longer use, the interface no longer seems so terribly complicated. The main thing is to read the help first.
With a little understanding of the interface, you can start creating the index. The process itself is very simple and the indexing speed, even by eye, is much higher than all other search engines from the review. The clear test numbers show that SearchInform has twice outperformed dtSearch and iSYS in indexing speed! The program indexed the provided data in the amount of 20 gigabytes in a record time - 3 hours 17 minutes. And the size of the created index turned out to be the smallest 4.4 GB - 100 MB less than that of Google Desktop Search.
The program supports, in addition to regular files and folders, also indexing emails, connecting and indexing databases (!) and other external sources (DMS, CRM), immediately during indexing you can specify a dictionary for morphological search, and all file attributes can be indexed. After creating the index, when trying to conduct the first test search for documents, you can get a little confused: "there are two types of search, but which one do I need?" As mentioned earlier - the main thing is to read the help, then everything will become clear. The program really knows how to carry out two types of search - a phrase search and a search for documents similar in content to the query text.
The description of all the main functions for analyzing a search query was given above, so now we will only list the search capabilities provided by this program. Let's start with phrasal search: of course, morphological search, citation search, logical operations, word parsing search (search at the beginning of a word, at the end, in the middle part, or a complete match), mixed quotation search (when all words from the query must be present in the document, but not necessarily in the entered order), error correction search, use of synonyms, "almost citation search" (searches for the entered phrase as a quote, but other words may be present between the entered words), etc. Some of the listed options have their own specific settings. In addition, it is possible to use a dictionary of insignificant words, and the program already has a ready-made list of these words, and you can also use the dictionary of priority words for searching (you will, of course, have to fill it in yourself).
Here, in principle, we briefly ran through all the basic possibilities of phrase search.
Let's move on to considering the features of this program - the search for similar documents. The developers argue that this is by no means a simple search for text, it is precisely a "search for similar" - that is how it is described by them everywhere, but okay, you can call it whatever you like - the main point. A quick search on the Internet can quickly reveal that so-called "similar searches" are a new development in text analysis. This system allows you to find texts that are similar in terms of their semantic content. The most pleasant thing was that after conducting test searches, it turned out that theory is quite the same as practice! The program actually searches for documents similar in content and displays them in a list, sorted by similarity percentage.
Next, let's look at what SearchInform offers (in particular, its corporate version SearchInform Corporate) for working in a corporate network. There are two types of applications: back-end and custom. Server part processes the specified indexes on its own, and users can use them for searches, depending on the access rights assigned to them. Users can be configured automatically using accounts Windows (in a professional language, SearchInform uses Windows NTFS authentication) or manually (users will have to be added separately). Each user can be allowed or denied access to certain indexes, you can also combine users into groups. In general, SearchInform's settings for networking are ahead of Google in terms of flexibility and Snoop Server in terms of convenience and simplicity.
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Distribution size: 14.7 Mb Indexing speed comparison
| Search engine | Indexing time | Index size |
| Snoop Prof Deluxe 4.5 | 38 hours 46 minutes | 19 GB |
| Isys Desktop 7.0 | 6 hours 13 minutes | 7.9 GB |
| DtSearch 7.0 | 6 hours 3 minutes | 8.6 GB |
| Google Desktop Search Enterprise | 8 hours 17 minutes | 4.5 GB |
| Copernic Desktop Search * | 10 hours 51 minutes | 7 GB |
| SearchInform 1.5.02 | 3 hours 17 minutes | 4.4 GB |
* Most of the documents .html and .txt containing Russian text, although they were indexed, but except by their names, it was impossible to find them.
All programs are worthy of attention.
Based on the tests and careful examination of each program presented in the review, certain conclusions can be drawn. So, Google Desktop Search Copernic Desktop Search is quite suitable for an inexperienced user as a home information search system. They do a good job with simple querieswill not overload the user with settings and, moreover, are completely free. Google's attempt to enter the corporate search engine market is not yet highly justified: for full-fledged operation, the program needs to be hung with additional modules, and it is far from easy to configure. Therefore, the speaking names Desktop Search, that Copernic, that Google leave behind them the niche of "desktop" search engines.
However, more powerful solutions - dtSearch, iSYS and SearchInform are also not baked and offer users their "desktop" versions. But at a reasonable price, unlike free software from Google and Copernic. Of course, you have to pay for power, speed and functionality. But the developers of dtSearch, iSYS and SearchInform make their main target, of course, on the corporate sector. Networking, functionality, speed of indexing and search are what differentiate these products from their "competitors". According to the test results, the favorite was determined - SearchInform. The program provides the ability to search for similar documents, has the highest indexing and search speed, has a good set of functions.
Voted for the program: 58 average rating: 1724139,5
Published in the collection of programs: 20.02.2010
Operating system: All Windows Platform
Size of the program (distribution): 5.8 Mb
License type: FreeWare
Snoop program. works on the principle of a full-fledged search engine, like YandexGoogle on the Internet.
The user indicates to the program the so-called Search Zone - a set of folders in which his working documents are stored. Snoop handles everything text fileslocated in the Search Zone and creates an index for subsequent searches. An index is a database, a kind of table that stores a list of all the words found in text documents.
Snoop works with almost all known text document formats, including: MS Word templates * .dot), Rich Text Format documents (*. Rtf), Adobe Acrobat (* .pdf), PHP (*. Php, *. phtml), MS Power Point (*. ppt, *. pps), MS Excel (*. xls).
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Local residents find a taxi drenched in blood on the seashore. It looks like a murder happened here, but where did the driver and passengers disappear in that case ?! Alexandra and her colleagues find out that the construction magnate Miroshnichenkov was driving in the car and his death could be beneficial to many. However, the most amazing discovery awaits the detectives ahead: the blood in the car does not belong to Miroshnichenkov at all, but to the missing taxi driver Sakharov. Meanwhile, the department is undergoing a significant reshuffle ...
Detailed information.
What will happen to the main character in the third season of the series? As in previous seasons, investigator Aleksandra Kushnir will continue to reveal crimes in a filigree, concrete way, and intuitively like a woman and bring the impious inhabitants of the Black Sea coast to the surface. In the first season, she worked in Divnomorsk, and from the second season, the entire department was relocated to Gelendzhik. The crimes the heroine discloses are becoming more dangerous, and personal dramas are more and more confusing.
Daria Lavrova, producer of the Star Media film company:
There will be surprises, and some more! The life of our beautiful heroine does not stand still. She is a passionate nature, gambling, never loses hope for personal happiness. In addition, a new employee will appear in the well-coordinated police team of the Bloodhound. And Alexandra will not immediately find a common language with him.
If stability and peace come, then the audience will be bored. Therefore, of course, we will torment our Snoop a little more and make him reflect on his personal life. But in the end, of course, everything will work out, and Alexandra will find her personal happiness. And how exactly it looks, viewers will find out in the finale of the third season.
Anna Banshchikova role - investigator Alexandra Kushnir:
With love and relationships in the third season, everything is not easy, however, as always with my heroine. She doesn't get along well with men because she only loves her job. As one famous actress said: We ourselves became those tough guys whom we dreamed of getting married in our youth. If she wanted, she would have everything: a husband, a wedding, and a family. But she is afraid of losing her freedom.
I receive a huge number of letters from viewers who love our show, many have watched the Bloodhound several times. The combination of intelligence, intelligence and a sense of humor is all thanks to which we have all this turned out!
Vlad Pavlov role - Lieutenant Valentin Shirokov:
Alexandra Ivanovna is a woman who is in harmony with her complexes, she is a mature personality and does not chase the standards of so-called beauty. Therefore, she attracts the attention of persons of the opposite sex. Kushnir has a personal charisma, she is very feminine. Men always like this. Anya has a great character, touching and funny. She is completely unpredictable and atypical for a female investigator.
Edward Chekmazov role - captain Alexander Abashev
In addition to the detective line in the third season, the characters of our characters began to be revealed. It turned out that we are not just some kind of opera, but also real people laughing. My Abashev suddenly had a 20-year-old daughter.
A new heroine appears in the film. Eva Smolich, actress Olga Litvinova - colonel and new chief of Kushnir.
Olga Litvinova.
Evgenia Smolich is an ordinary woman with all the ensuing circumstances. It's just that her position is so important and serious that at work you have to press buttons that turn off female qualities and include courage and severity.
In the new season, love collisions will also be associated with forensic expert Marat Khaidarov, whose self-control and self-control in previous seasons have surprised viewers more than once.
My hero will have a novel that proves that love knows no boundaries or ranks. It is impossible to fight this heart disease. Our couple has been hiding their relationship for a long time and carefully, but it still becomes known about it.
Throughout the season, forensic scientist Marat Khaidarov never ceases to amaze: he also appears before the audience in the unexpected role of a professional biker.
Denis Burgazliev the role of captain, forensic expert Marat Khaidarov:
I am a real biker, I even graduated from motorcycle riding school. When I started working on the role of Khaidarov, I wanted to endow him with some interesting qualities. So that outside the gray walls of the morgue he had a completely opposite, vibrant life. Therefore, my character listens to appropriate music, wears certain clothes, rides motorcycles. For filming, at my request, I got a wonderful motorcycle - a converted Suzuki Intruder. I also asked him to be smart, and the props found for me such an elegant motorcycle that you ride it like on a New Year tree.
Crimes are committed one by one, the department increasingly has to work all night long, but for its employees work is an integral part of life, and without it they can no longer imagine themselves.
Nikolenko Vladimir role - captain Igor Vasilievich Biryukov
In the first season, my hero was going to retire and start a subsistence farming. However, with the advent of the new bosses, he realized that he could not imagine himself without work, and a pension for him is the worst thing that can happen in life.
About Dmitry Vladimirovich Brusnikin.
With special warmth and care, the actors and the film crew recall their work with the director of all seasons of the series - Dmitry Brusnikin, whose death shocked the project participants. For Dmitry Brusnikin Ishcheyka 3 is his last directorial work:
Anna Banshchikova role - investigator Alexandra Kushnir
Dmitry Vladimirovich was an absolutely incredible person! A person with whom everything made sense. We spent a huge amount of time on and off the site. A man with absolutely mad energy, a man - a motor! We miss him very much.
Thanks to Dmitry Vladimirovich, the film has a lot of humor and self-irony. He said: You and I have such a sense of humor that always saves. In any situation, we could come up with something funny, we improvised so much on the set, fooled around.
Denis Burgazliev the role of captain, forensic expert Marat Khaidarov:
For many years we have worked with Dmitry Vladimirovich Brusnikin. He was a teacher in my course when I studied at the Moscow Art Theater School. Once we did a huge project with him Beagle: 24 episodes - I played the main role. We often met not only in the theater, but also on television. It was very interesting with him, because he was always open to new proposals and interesting moves.
Facts from the filming.
Like the first two seasons, shooting of nature and city objects took place in Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk, Aderbievka and other cities close to them. But the department where our heroes work was filmed in Moscow, in the pavilion of the Star Media company. By the way, the scenery changed a little: according to the authors' idea, the department was moved to a new building.
Alexandra Kushnir, of course, is changing herself. From a young girl, she turns into a grown woman. This is noticeable even in the costume: the bright colors of the first season are replaced by calmer tones, the heroine even puts on heels for greater formality and femininity, and partly for the sake of defeating her rival.
There are many different scenes with blood in the series. It's no secret that blood in cinema is a special solution, it comes in different shades for different purposes. And it also comes in different flavors - tomato juice, berry. On the Bloodhound, all the blood was menthol flavored.
This season Alexandra did not get involved in any dangerous adventures, so she did not need an understudy, although there is a girl in the stunt group who could perform stunts for her.
The episode of the shelling of Alexandra and Boris's car was difficult and dangerous. On the way, the car was shot, and from the shots the windshield had to break into small pieces. During the performance of the stunt, there was only one person in the car - a stuntman with a protective mask on his face, the actors did not participate. When the trick was completed, two corpses and the remaining living heroes entered the frame. So people weren't hurt, but the car was written off and disposed of. In the third season, two foreign cars were destroyed in this way.
In the premises of one closed bank, 4 different banks were rented: two of them were robbed, in the other two clients and heroes came.
The Bloodhound series is an adaptation of the famous The Closer format by Warner Bros. The original series aired on the American TNT television channel for seven seasons 2005-2012. relentlessly winning over new audiences. If the first episode of the first season was watched by 7 million viewers, then two years later, by the first episode of the third, there were already almost 9 million. The Closer repeatedly broke the world record for cable TV audience coverage. And the American actress Kira Sedgwick, who played Brenda Lee Johnson, the head of the department for combating particularly serious crimes, received an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her leading role in the series. The Russian version of the series has become one of the most successful in the world.
Film creation year: 2018
Producer: , Dimitri Brusnikin,
