Snowbird Search - finds files very fast

review from ClifNotes, updated Sep 2008, Jul 2007, permalink File Management

I tried out Snowbird four years ago. It was written by a young programmer in India and it's been slowly evolving into a very good search tool. When I first tried it, Snowbird used to display the search results in a web browser. Since then, it's changed to allow you to view the results in the program interface and also preview some file types.

The amazing thing about Snowbird is it's size. The download is only 22kb. This is definitely a portable tool you can take with you anywhere. No installation is needed. Just unzip the executable file and run it.

I just tried it and searched my hard drive for text files. It finished scanning 40 gigs in about 5 seconds while finding over 3000 files.

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Quote from the website
Snowbird is an extremely small and fast desktop search utility that can search for files and also text inside files. The latest version shows results in real-time as the search progresses and also features a preview pane for quickly viewing common file formats.

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