I also tried it and was unimpressed. Besides the sponsored links, I did a
search in music for "Elton John" (first name that popped into my head) and I
was told it could not locate any music using those terms.
OKaaaaaaaaay. Right.
I tried a few other searches, and found the results to be inferior to what I
get from Google.
YMMV, but I am with Barney. It sucks.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Barney Gaylord <barneymg@mgaguru.com> wrote:
> Okay, I tried Copernic Desktop search (free version), it sucks, and I
> don't want to ever see it again.
>
> As usual, free is not such a good deal. It is obviously just another
> media for pushing paid advertising. It took me about 30 seconds to
> find the patterns. It starts with flying banner ads on the opening
> intro page. For the first few pages of search results 10 of the 20
> line items displayed are sponsored links. Farther in the ads (so
> far) drop form 50% to 35% of all line items diplayed (7 out of 20 per
> page), but always including 5 of the first 7 items on every page.
>
> Now would you like to buy me the pro copy just to get me to try it again?
>
>
> At 11:52 AM 11/8/2009 -0500, Barrie Robinson wrote:
> >....
> >ABSOLUTELY !! Anyone can go to www.copernic.com and download ....
> >....
> >.... IT IS FREE
> >....
> >>....
> >>At 08:00 PM 11/7/2009 -0500, Barrie Robinson wrote:
> >>>Why do people use Google when Copernic is so much better - it
> >>>allows you to delete useless search finds as well as saving the
> >>>search records for future use.
> >>>....
> >....
>
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