All these days I was quite busy and am a bit late in updating myself with the latest happenings. 
Bing.com seems to have been launched for public by microsoft. This looks promising and the search results also seems to be as good as Google. Need to see if it can emerge as a Google competitor.
DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to quickly access documents on your computer by
typing keywords. You can think of it as Google for your local document repository.
How is different desktop search applications such as Google Desktop:
- First, it defaults to indexing only what you need, not to indexing the entire harddrive.
- Second, it indexes documents only – pictures, music, videos, etc. are omitted.
More details and download here:
http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/de/download.html
