dtSearch has “a powerful arsenal of search
tools.”
— The New York Times
dtSearch "is the most powerful document
search tool on the market.”
— Wired Magazine
Awarded top "Splurge" rating
“If you want more search options than the
plain-vanilla [Microsoft] Indexing Service provides, check
out dtSearch ... with fuzzy searching, natural language
support (“find the May sales report”), and advanced queries.”
— Smart Business
“dtSearch — The Ultimate Search Machine
... more quickly than you can spill your coffee, any document
matching your request will appear ... Searches can be made
on gigabytes of information and will generally return results
in less than a second ... This one is fast, easy and a pleasure
to use.”
— dataBASE d-ZINE
“Indispensable for users who need a search
tool to access multiple file formats ... The product performed
searches at blazing speeds.”
— Computer Reseller News Test Center, Recommended
“The program is incredibly flexible and
searches are very, very fast ... The more files you index,
the more you’ll profit from dtSearch. I ... was amazed at
its indexing and nearly-instantaneous searching speeds.”
— The Office Letter, Tips and Tricks for Microsoft
Office
“Top-notch searching tools.”
— Computer Shopper
“Bottom Line: Very powerful text-search
tool ... a staggering number of ways to search ... a very
strong program ... a great bargain for offices that need
to master mountains of text.”
— Windows Magazine
“I started searching for software that
could help me locate stuff on my hard drive. Voila! I found
[dtSearch].”
“The results are amazing ... [dtSearch Corp.] also markets
the core of their software in the form of the dtSearch Text
Retrieval Engine.”
— Midrange Systems
(e-Business)
“Finding a particular document ... An impossible
task? It may be if you don’t have dtSearch ... We particularly
appreciated the speed and flexibility of the searches.”
— Smart Computing
“dtSearch is really stable, has lots of
nice features, generally beats the pants off of [a major
competitor].”
— Principal,
www.searchtools.com
“dtSearch Corp. has users at the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; California attorney general’s
office; Defense and Justice departments; and NASA.”
— Government Computer News
A SoftPicks Network “Best Pick”
Awarded top rating by TUCOFS — The Ultimate Collection
of Forensic Software, A Complete Resource for Cyber Law
Enforcement Technologies
“Search features are robust ... But most
of all it's blazingly fast.” dtSearch Web is “a world class
search engine [installed] all in less than 10 minutes ...
Highly recommended.”
— PCNet®, pcnet-online.com
“If you’re looking for a superior full-text
search engine for your next development project, CodeHound
recommends you check out dtSearch.”
— CodeHound.com
(newsletter)
A SoftLandMark Editor’s Pick and
a subsequent Software of the Week selection
dtSearch has been on the monthly ComponentSource
Top 50 Bestseller’s List.
dtSearch is also a ComponentSource
Search Component Top Download.
dtSearch “provides powerful Boolean search
capabilities and the ability to drill deep into successive
search results. We especially liked its ability to search
content resources no matter where they were.”
— eWEEK (Message & Collaboration)
“dtSearch is the clear winner as a means
to locate documents and text within those documents.” “Searching
with dtSearch ... is more intuitive ... and faster too ...
dtSearch was more than twice as fast [at indexing] and provides
better information about located files. It also makes better
use of the Windows environment.”
— Law Office Computing,
Editor’s Choice |
A ZDNet Editor’s Pick
“dtSearch is fully programmable from your
Visual Basic applications — no more shelling out to separate
programs to find files!”
— VB Bible (IDG Books)
“dtSearch is a clear winner.”
— Legal Times
dtSearch has been a Programmer’s Paradise
Paradise Picks
“Searching for Waldo”: The dtSearch Engine
“could rapidly lookup various words in the various code
files ... supports scheduling to allow for periodic scanning
for new or changed data ... seems to have more horsepower
behind it than” its competitor. “Also impressive was the
dtSearch’s Engine ability to index so many different file
types, and then display it all in HTML with hit navigation.”
— Boise Software Developer’s Group (presentation)
“dtSearch can be used on its own or, alternatively,
its text-retrieval engine can be integrated with document-management
software ... I have been using dtSearch for a few weeks
now and have found it very useful in managing the ‘information
overload.’ I particularly value the ability to search across
database as well as word-processed files.”
— SA Computer Magazine
Awarded 5 Stars
“Intuitive and austere ... dtSearch does
extensive, intricate searching accurately and efficiently
... a superb search tool.”
— PC World
dtSearch (evaluation version) is on the
CD accompanying Incident Response: Computer Forensics
Toolkit
“dtSearch makes a fast search engine for
text data ... A search on ‘guinea fowl’ on my desktop, for
example, pulls out 48 documents containing those silly birds
from the nearly 100,000 that I indexed in less than a second
... I also took a look at the dtSearch engine from a programmer’s
point of view ... If you need wide-ranging search capabilities
in your own application, their Text Retrieval Engine package
is definitely worth considering.”
— Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online
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“dtSearch delivered more value than the
tools of other vendors in the roundup, according to the
CRN Test Center ... dtSearch offers an entire line of search
and text-retrieval products designed for any corporate intranet.
dtSearch uses a freer approach to searching and document
management than its competitors ... the original file is
left untouched.” Developers’ applications “can incorporate
dtSearch’s Engine to index and search large volumes of text.”
— Computer Reseller News Test Center (Review of
Search Technologies)
dtSearch “searches are blindingly fast.
Fishing expeditions are easier with features such as fuzzy
searches, which can find words even when they are misspelled,
and a built-in thesaurus that can be used to automatically
include synonyms in a search ... Functioning equally well
against both email folders and text files, these are very
powerful and useful capabilities for an investigator.”
— Computer Forensics:
Incident Response Essentials
“A robust, sophisticated, desktop search
engine that outsmarts (and outmaneuvers) the competition.
If you want speed & precision, dtSearch is the only
way to go.”
— Dingbat Magazine,
Utility of the Month
“If you do run the kind of business where
its features are necessary, the program is pure gold.”
— Maximum PC
“The needle’s in the haystack, and you’re
on a deadline to find it. You need dtSearch ...
If you spend half your life looking for data, dtSearch is
a powerful remedy.”
— PC Computing
“As far as search capabilities, few products
of any kind are as comprehensive as dtSearch ... If you
want the most power possible, give dtSearch a good, long
look.”
— PC Magazine
“dtSearch, a powerful commercial product
... The best commercial product to date for translators
and translation companies would appear to be dtSearch.”
— sdc-language.com (revised article
adapted from an earlier article that appeared in Language
Today)
“Beats the Heck Out of Grep ... A text
search tool for end users and developers alike, dtSearch
[offers] near-instant searching of gigabyte-scale data sets
... [A] developer edition [has] the text retrieval engine
for Windows API, .NET or Linux applications ... The Web
edition [has] a spider-bot that can crawl external sites
... dtSearch Publish lets you include the full-fledged text
retrieval machine on any CD or DVD you ship.”
— Software Development Magazine
dtSearch is “so powerful and loaded with
options ... The breadth of options available when setting
up your search parameters is amazing.”
— PC Today
“Take dtSearch ... The software makes it
easier to find information on Web sites and PC desktops,
datanetworks and software files.”
— Investor's Business Daily
“There's one option ... that I, as a tech
journalist, could really warm to: Using a Knowledge Management
system OEM'd from dtSearch ... it can index documents anywhere
in your file system.”
— eWeek (analysis)
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dtSearch “covers all data sources ... powerful
Web-based engines for searching across lots of data.”
— eWEEK Labs
“The grandaddy of all text search and retrieval
programs, dtSearch can search through literally gigabytes
of text on your computer or across a network to find the
information you want. dtSearch includes built-in file viewers,
graphics viewing, cut-and-paste, and file launching.”
— PC World Online,
Editors’ Pick
“With corporate network data stores taking
on immense proportions, powerful methods of dredging out
specific information are key to leveraging the usefulness
of enormous storage systems. [dtSearch Corp.] has successfully
accomplished this with dtSearch ... an impressive text-retrieval
application that is already making this reviewer’s life
easier. The main search window in dtSearch includes every
conceivable method of describing exactly what information
you’re searching for.”
— PC Magazine Online
“dtSearch Web powers large sites ... and
includes programmable APIs that support multiple programming
languages.”
— Web Techniques
“Big site seeks search engine ... dtSearch
Web ... adds powerful text search options to your Web site
or intranet ... Get search results in an instant.”
— Internet Works
“Creating an index lets dtSearch perform
basic searches with a speed that’s close to instantaneous
... dtSearch also shows off its power with a great range
of optional search features ... dtSearch’s reporting capabilities
are also impressive ... If you ever face a real file-search
emergency, make the call to obtain dtSearch.”
— Computer User Online
“Look High, Look Low, or Let dtSearch Have
a Go ... Trying to gather information from all over the
map? dtSearch scours your disks for text within Office-type
files old and new ... Installation is breezy. The program
is simple to use, and results are swift.”
— CP Universe
“If you need to search through high volumes
of data, this is the way.”
— The Data Bus
“Truly good.”
— Electronic Composition
& Imaging
“dtSearch to the Rescue ... I want to let
you know about an incredible tool ... The products create
indexes that then allow multi-gigabyte size disk drives
to be searched in less than a second in most cases. Things
like fuzzy searching, phonic searching, numeric range searching,
synonym searching and wildcard searching are also possible
as well as searching in network drives, CDs and even the
Internet ... I have never used anything quite like this
product.”
— SC InfoSec (Info Security News Service newsletter)
“One product that I am hot to trot about
is dtSearch Desktop, the search tool I use just about every
day. It’s a terrific tool for finding files based on the
data inside the files.”
— PC World.com (column)
dtSearch has been an Xtras President’s Pick
“An excellent program.”
— Online Today
“One of my favorite tools, that I talk
about in any presentation or training class, is dtSearch
... Among the many new features, some of the most notable
include the ability to create automatic index updates that
can be scheduled; the ability to index other people’s web
sites, even handling dynamically created links (pages that
were built for the requested search and static pages); the
ability to maintain your in-house jargon as it pertains
to a job description, but use search words that are in the
real world; and a lot, lot more.”
— Sourcerer’s Apprentice
Awarded 4W’s by Windows Magazine
Awarded 5 Stars
SofoTex.com
Editor’s Rating
“Results are returned in lightning speed
even on multiple-indexed file server folders ... Everyone
agrees that using the program was simple to learn and a
great asset.”
— Public Defense Backup
Center Report
“... larger corpuses are better handled
using external programs. In my experience, dtSearch is ideal
for this purpose. dtSearch uses indexing, can process almost
any file format, and can even search using fuzzy technique
if needed.”
— Translation Journal
“Powered by dtSearch, it delivers more
relevant results and gives you fine grain control over your
search.”
| —ProgrammersHeaven.com (newsletter) |
“dtSearch is a blindingly fast text search
and retrieval product ... This tool will build indexes of
the files on your storage medium, then allow you to build
complex search requests that operate against the index files
rather than the source files themselves ... The product
is eye-blink fast ... The searching capabilities of the
dtSearch product and, by extension, the dtSearch Text Retrieval
Engine, are nothing short of astounding. Their search algorithms,
in combination with a proprietary index format, allow colossal
amounts of text to be managed quickly and efficiently. The
[dtSearch] Web site lists a number of commercial products
that have integrated the engine into their codes to the
user’s benefits. If your text management needs dictate a
search product, dtSearch is an excellent choice, and the
dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine is an equally excellent choice
if your next product requires these functions.”
— Delphi Informant
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“Simply put, the two companies help the
good guys catch the bad guys. The FBI and local law enforcement
agencies ... have used dtSearch and Orion’s software to
sift through massive amounts of computer data to help make
the connections that lead to arrests.” “Dramatic examples
where the product has helped catch criminals” include “a
money laundering and black market gem operation” and “a
police shooting in California.”
— Washington Business
Journal
“dtSearch is the most powerful general
purpose search engine out there.”
— Editor in Chief, Visual
Developer Magazine
“An insanely fast full-text search engine
ActiveX DLL.”
— President, CodeHound.com,
The Software Developer’s
Search Engine |
“How would you like a program that can
index a million words in a host of file formats ... in less
than 30 seconds, then find any word or phrase you need in
any indexed file — and show you the entire text of that
file, regardless of format — so close to instantly only
an android would appreciate the difference? The program
is dtSearch ... Fast, clean, efficient, accurate, complete.”
— ComputorEdge Magazine
dtSearch was awarded the InfoWorld
Buyers Assurance Seal
dtSearch is “so good that even criminal
investigators use it for forensics. Stacked with awards
and accolades ... searches lightening fast and accurately
to boot! Just to mention a figure, 100,000 documents searched
in less than a second ... nearly every conceivable method
of foraging through data is built into this lifesaver ...
This is certainly the searchlight of the computer world.”
— The London Morning Paper
“dtSearch is an intelligently conceived,
versatile program with a superior repertoire of text retrieval
capabilities ... exceptional search functionality.”
— Library Technology
Reports
“Here in the pages of COTS Journal we report
on the latest technologies having utility in military and
aerospace applications ... Here are my favorite three COTS
desktop products that help me countless times a day.” (dtSearch
was one of those three.) “The inability to find files and
search email stores like Outlook is a serious Achilles heel
that’s handily solved using an IT-oriented product called
dtSearch ... product can construct indexes of your disk
and directories, Outlook PST files, network drives, and
even remote websites—allowing you to perform powerful searches
with keywords, fuzzy logic, case sensitivity, wild card,
date ranges and other metrics.”
— COTS® Journal
(COTS Editorial)
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“dtSearch helps companies find information
in text-based documents quickly and efficiently ... The
addition of comprehensive XML technology into the search
engine has put it in position to tap the growing business-to-business
e-commerce market ... the selling point was the search engine’s
ability to cover the gamut of features customers would want
when they search.”
— Computerworld Canada
Awarded a Best in Class
rating in the “Index and Search Resumes in Document Folders”
category.
— Recruiting on the Web: Smart Strategies for Finding
the Perfect Candidate
BlueChillies.com
“dtSearch provides an incredibly powerful
search engine to help you comb through everything from your
desktop to your network to the Internet ... an invaluable
tool in law offices, recruiting, medical research, and government
offices ... dtSearch has unleashed the single most efficient
text retrieval application available.”
— PC Upgrade Magazine
“But what if you want to look for the information
inside your files? In that case, you need dtSearch, a text-retrieval
program that can look for specific words stored inside a
wide range of formats, including Word, Excel, dBASE, Zip,
PDF, HTML, XML, email, and Unicode files.”
— Computer Power User
“Integrated into a Web site via a point
and click form, dtSearch Web can add a dozen instant text
search options ... requires no knowledge of HTML or Internet
protocols and provides Webmasters with numerous options
to customise the appearance of search forms and search results.”
— Internet Business
“Deriving relevancy from this heap is the
challenge and dtSearch is the solution ... Power and scalability
are key features of dtSearch ... Anyone faced with the task
of having to sort through a large amount of documents to
find common themes, matching words, select phrases, numeric
entries and related content matter could benefit by applying
dtSearch.”
— National Litigation Consultants' Review
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“Brute strength”
—The
Wall Street Journal (Loose Wire column)
“Text Mining: dtSearch ... Addressing this
issue of unstructured data is dtSearch ... a tool for indexing,
searching and retrieving free-form text files. What makes
dtSearch so interesting is the capability of its search
process, which goes far beyond the usual word search offered
by most text editors and word processors ... dtSearch is
an ideal tool for bringing order to this collection of useful
material ... dtSearch delivers a powerful text mining engine
that is effective because of the level of intelligence it
displays.”
“dtSearch ... Finding a Virtual Needle
in a Digital Haystack is Now Much Easier ... Extensive Search
Parameters ... The program can perform a plethora of search
types ... I was impressed with dtSearch’s search query flexibility
and speed of returning results.”
— MS OfficePRO
“Product: dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine
... Summary: A tremendously powerful and capable text search
engine that may be incorporated into both networked and
standalone applications, as well as deployed with a Web
server.”
— Visual Developer
“This is a MUST HAVE tool for network administrators
and computer professionals.”
— S&J Magazine
“A VB Internet code search engine with
a twist ... it uses the powerful dtSearch under the hood.”
— Visual Basic Developer Weekly
“Do you need to search mountains of digital
text? dtSearch lets you quickly search through gigabytes
of text — and it achieves its speed by first building an
index that stores the location of words in files. The program
recognizes and supports word processor, database, PDF, XML,
and Unicode files and more, and it doesn’t alter your original
files. If you’re having trouble thinking of the word you’re
trying to find, the program lets you use a Browse Thesaurus
option [and] a look-up word option that shows the effect
on words retrieved with fuzzy, phonic, stemming, or wild
card searching activated.”
— PC World.com
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“dtSearch Web and Text Retrieval Engine
offers its clients full control over the content including
security measures, an important feature to government agencies
and other ‘high-security’ clients ... Companies with development
shops can take advantage of the dtSearch Text Retrieval
programming APIs, which includes multithreaded operation
for use with Active Server Pages (ASP) and .NET.”
—WebReview
“Ideally suited for rapid indexing by forensic
investigators.”
— Investigative Data
Mining for Security and
Criminal Detection
dtSearch “will help you pick a needle out
of a haystack ... wade through lots of bits and bytes in
a hurry.”
— NBC4, Digital Edge
dtSearch is “blazing fast ... capable of
using natural language processing or sophisticated Boolean
logic to tease results from humongous data archives ...
an essential tool for finding what’s where.”
— Hartford Courant
“dtSearch is a great time-saving tool because
more often than not, someone in the firm previously has
addressed the issue you need to work on. dtSearch can access
this information in seconds ... In a recent case, I used
dtSearch on a document population that was close to 3 gigabytes
in size; the program handled it very nicely ... Imagine
having to search manually through the hard-copy equivalent
of 3 gigs of data! It probably would take weeks ... There
is no quicker way to find a needle in a digital haystack.”
— The Lawyer’s PC
(published by West Group)
“Without a doubt, dtSearch is an industrial-strength
application ... if finding what you want when you want it
is critical to your daily operations, it’s an application
you won’t want to be without.”
— jobfind (Dr. Gadget column)
dtSearch “which designers say ‘can search
gigabytes of text in a second,’ lives up to its billing
for speed and thoroughness ... a powerful tool ... The company
also offers a full set of tools to manage network search
options. When it comes to finding information fast, dtSearch
delivers.”
— The Herald News
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“dtSearch ... raises the bar in text retrieval,
providing an ‘industrial strength’ search engine that is
definitely a must-have for any experienced computer user
or information systems manager ... dtSearch Web adds instant
searching to Web sites, and I strongly urge Webmasters to
seriously investigate the power of this engine that can
be added to any Web site to provide powerful searching of
the site by your customers ... The program has many powerful
methods of dredging out specific information about the indexed
files, thus supporting the efforts of any company to leverage
the usefulness of the rapidly growing enormous storage systems
now so common. Just about every conceivable method of describing
exactly what you are searching for is built into this super
program. The search process is very capable of indexing,
storing and presenting data that goes far beyond the usual
process.”
— Golden Triangle PC Club
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“dtSearch ... does an excellent job of
finding needles in haystacks that come in a wide variety
of file formats ... works quickly with a wide variety of
search modes ... But the most intriguing new feature I saw
was the ability to index public sites on the Web ... Web
sites often have a built in index or search program, but
I’ve found that dtSearch lets me find things on some sites
that I couldn’t find using the built-in program.”
— Law Office Technology
Review (reprinted at
www.law.com)
“dtSearch — an inspired choice.” “dtSearch
offers intelligent searching at terrific speeds — we were
really amazed. Installation is fast and painless. Simply
select the folder or an entire hard disk to Index. Then
– wow – go ahead and find your most vital information with
lightning speed. ‘Hits’ are displayed and hyperlinks are
used so you can jump straight to the relevant documents.”
“dtSearch is a fast, powerful, text file indexing program
for document search and retrieval.”
— it-news, Editor’s Choice
dtSearch “algorithms provide unrivaled
power and capabilities ... the program raises the bar in
text retrieval, providing an industrial strength search
engine that is an absolute must-have for Web-based data
information management ... dtSearch outmaneuvers the competition.
It’s a robust, sophisticated and powerful text-search tool
... If you want speed and accuracy, dtSearch is the only
way to go.”
— Law Office Computing
(“The Search Is On” article)
“Today’s focus: dtSearch spiders and searches
Web ... dtSearch Web can search many format types including
Microsoft Office documents, e-mail, HTML, PDF, XML, ZIP,
CSV, RTF, ANSI, and Unicode ... dtSearch Spider [provides]
searching of both public and secure content.”
— Network World (newsletter on Web applications)
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With regard to indexing performance, “dtSearch
ran considerably faster than MS-SQL ... dtSearch took from
3.5 [to] 4 hours, whereas MS-SQL took from 20 [to] 28 hours.”
With regard to search performance, of 14 test queries, “dtSearch
was faster in all of the queries except two” and “documents
returned by dtSearch are always equal to, or a superset
of, the documents returned by MS-SQL.” Further, “There were
no false positives” with dtSearch. A chart comparison of
dtSearch with MS-SQL, Oracle, and IBM DB2 also found that
only dtSearch had all 17 search features listed. “Based
on the above benchmarks, we elected to use the dtSearch
engine for text indexing and searching of data.”
— Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
(“Integrating Query of Relational and Textual Data in Clinical
Databases: A Case Study”)
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“dtSearch took its file indexing and searching
expertise, moved it to the Web, and now offers a variety
of tools to help users and companies avoid ever losing a
file again on a desktop, a network or the Web.”
— Network World Fusion
“Customers shouldn't have to worry about
spacing, abbreviations or misspellings when they are shopping
and pressed for time. A good search function will take care
of that situation, and that is what ours does.”
— Internet Retailer (quoting a dtSearch customer
on their Web-based usage of dtSearch)
“When I say 'split second' I mean it was
really too fast for me to measure ... The company, dtSearch
Corp., has been producing search software for more than
10 years. But it's hard to see how they could improve on
the current version.”
— The Gaston Gazette
“If you are constantly mining your own
hard drive for information, [dtSearch] is money well spent
... When you first install it, dtSearch indexes your documents,
your Outlook or Eudora folders, your address book, even
the contents of your photograph and music folders ... once
the indexing is done, a query to the search utility ...
quickly turns up the informational needle you were looking
for.”
— Philadelphia Inquirer
“The company has attracted attention for
its search engine, provided by vendor dtSearch. ‘When customers
are looking for grocery items, they often have different
descriptions like using “pasta” for “spaghetti” ... This
search engine has synonym searching, so it can accommodate
interchangeable words. In addition, it accommodates misspelled
words.’”
— SupermarketNews (describing a dtSearch installation)
“The strength of dtSearch is the incredible
number of ways you can customize most facets of the program
... The breadth of options available when setting up your
search parameters is amazing.”
— PC Today
“Searching for files has never been so
easy!" "The answer is dtSearch ... you can also index Web
sites! Superb! ... The search options in this program are
astounding.”
— Lockergnome
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