I have been using lookout for a while now, and it certainly meets my needs for searching my non gmail mail.  Today, though, I saw a post from The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog about an app that cpernic has just released that aligns itself as competion.  Well, I'm a sucker for something new, and figured I would give it a shot. 

So far so good.  As with Greg, I like the idea of being able to search without outlook open.  It also seems to handle file searching more “naturally” then lookout (as it is now indexing a couple ebook pdf's that I have on my desktop).  I haven't used it nearly enough to decide if I will be uninstalling lookout, but will re-post when I have a better idea of how this thing will work out. 

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