Halftone Search

Halftone Search is all-in-one tool extending Google Desktop and Windows Desktop Search. It includes set of additional drivers for indexing files and shell for search files using GDS. The solid GUI shell also can be used to query Windows Desktop Search with advanced features.

What's included in Halftone Search

• Archives plugin - scans various archives
• IFilter plugin - allows to index many file types originally missed in GDS
• mht files plugin - scan web archive files created by Internet Explorer
• Plain-text plugin - scans simple text files with any extension, supports Unicode files
• MSHelp2 plugin - indexes MSDN and help files for modern software
• Search shell - lightweight shell with customizable highlight in search result
• Plugins configuration UI - helps to tune GDS plugins

Why should I use Halftone Search but not plugins

Actually there's no drawbacks in all-in-one tool comparing to individual plugins beside package size (1Mb vs. 400Kb). Instead using the program has following advantages:

• The program has features that absent in standalone plugins. We improve Halftone Search first.
• You can enable or disable some of drivers to speed up indexing process. Configuration stored separately from GDS and wont lost when GDS re-installed.
• We release updates for the product more frequently than for standalone plugins. Using Halftone Search you always have the most recent versions of drivers.

Individual plugins for Google Desktop Search

Following plugins for GDS are available:

Archives plugin - knows many archive formats such as: rar, zip, 7z, tar and others

MSHelp2 plugin - indexes MSDN collection and help files for modern software

Note, that all these plugins are included in Halftone Search for Google Desktop.