Participants and Disposition

This review is called to discover the currently fastest and smartest information retrieval systems. Seven software products have been selected for the search-test: Google Desktop Search, Copernic Desktop Search, DtSearch 7.0, iSYS 7.0 and SearchInform 1.5.02. The search marathon has been comprised of 20 gigabytes of textual information (documents in the doc, txt and html formats) including fiction extracts and various news articles from the Internet. The tests were run on a state-of-the-art office computer with processor AMD Barton 2.5 MHz, 1 gigabyte of random access memory, 160 gigabyte IDE hard drive Seagate with 7200 rpm and operational system Windows XP.