Seek and Ye Shall Find: Desktop search showdown

Seek and Ye Shall Find: Desktop search showdown: The popularity of desktop search applications – installable software that indexes your computer files instead of Web pages – is growing by leaps and bounds. A simple search in Google for the phrase desktop search returns over 700 million results!

But which offering is best? LifeHacker lined up the top five most downloaded desktop search services – Google, Yahoo, Copernic, Ask, and MSN – with a simple list of their pros and cons.