well golly, i didn't know there was a difference. probably because i have an older machine, so i avoid anything that 'indexes' for the sake of saving my RAM for other things. anyway i'm not much of a file hound other than movies/music which are easy enough to keep organized...
Yes. I knew that DOpus integrated with DTS and, not having time to go and dig out the details, assumed that it would follow the pack and go with Microsoft.
As I use X1, I am not familiar with either the Google or Microsoft products.
Recent versions of X1 now integrate with Windows Vista.
In an ideal world, all of the DTS would integrate in this way and software like DOpus would just pick up on whatever the user tells Windows to connect to.
Good thinking. But the paradox may be that the less you demand of DTS, the less strain it puts on your PC.
If you just want it to keep track of a bunch of multimedia files, DTS doesn't have to delve into them to index words. It just indexes file names and, depending on what you use, tags.
If you aren't changing things that often, then the strain on your PC is pretty small.
Then again, a simple search tool is up to a limited task like that, especially with regex, so long as you don't mind starting from scratch every time.
nah, i really don't think i need a desktop search. my music files are easily searchable through the wonder of Billy, the best media player in the world. it offers a 'live search' - simply typing part of an artist name or song name while the main window is in focus will give instant results. the player relies on an index of song names rather than on ID3 info, so it's super quick.
and for movies, i use Media Man to keep everything sorted 
so yes, in the end DOpus is more than adequate for what searches i do...