Eli Snir, IT Manager, Avnet, Israel
All our company using the amazing outlook searches since we found "Lookeen 2010 Professional
Max Bucht, Managing Director, Infosystems Software & Service GmbH, Eschborn, Germany
Lookeen of course is a GREAT product!
Richard Hayward, IT Manager, Tube Tech International, Essex, UK
We would not hesitate in recommending Lookeen to other businesses.
Jonathan Cousar, President, LazyLizard Internet Inc., New York, USA
I mean your product is great!
Rusty Keighron, Insurance Industry Manager, Docstar, New York, USA
Just a note to say how much more productive I am thanks to Lookeen.
Shay Traittel
I am working with your software and it is so good.
Christophe Marcant, Software Specialist, San Francisco, USA
I depend on it every day and it has saved me countless times finding emails I had misplaced.
Marc Prinsen, System Engineer, Viveo Belgium, La Hulpe, Belgium
Lookeen really enhances our Outlook experience by speeding up our searches. It is very easy to configure and fine-tune!
Network Administrator, Allentown, PA, USA
Lookeen is the best product we have found to allow for "full text seaching" of our shared Outlook email folders. It is an excellent product!
Kevin Anetsberger, General Manager, Midwest Tungsten Service, Willowbrook, USA
It is a terrific product! I was so pleased with it that I ordered copies for all of our staff.
Howard Bayne, Toronto, Canada
Lookeen saves me from searching, it helps me find.
Oliver Krainhöfner, Owner, CRAINTEK Media
…I love my inbox again!
Patrik Heim, Developer, Realtech System Consulting Corporation
It really simplifies my communication.
Nora Mühlbacher, IT System Manager, Frequentis AG
Frequentis employees benefit from Lookeen.
Nico Zettler, Producer, 10tacle Studios AG
…an excellent add-in for Microsoft Outlook…
Anja Kottke, Technical Writer
Outlook at its best.
Timo Sikora, Director, Caspar Fashion Corporation
This product has changed my daily work.
Carolin Fischer, Sr. HR Assistant
…I cannot live without this tool.
Guido Kopkow, Germany
Best search engine I have ever seen for Outlook! It seems that I will never need an archive solution for my mails.

Desktop Search

06.12.10 |

Data security wanted

Usually it is only one line, only a small slot, in which one types one or several terms of definitions, using your keyboard and within a split second you have a hit list. It started on 9.7.1998 in a garage and was called Google, and has by now found the way through the Internet onto plenty of personal computers. But what is the price? The big search engines like Google, Yahoo, Apple and Microsoft charge us with our personal data dearly for their services.

Search engines like Google and Bing want our data

The current, very heated, debate to enforce a better protection for personal data, reaches a new dimension in view of the desktop search. Because it is the desktop search that is actually saving personal data and knowledge of business companies on their own servers right from the start. For example, Google desktop search even speaks explicit in the GTA about saving data on external servers. The index is first generated on the personal computer and then will be send to Google. What happens there with the data, nobody knows. But it isn’t over there. Because a personalization takes place at latest, when the Google mail account and the Gmail account is involved as well. This option can be deactivated on installing, if you pay keen attention, but who does so in the modern “click next” generation?

Everyone wants our data

But it’s not just Google who wants our Data. Apples Spotlight, Microsoft and Yahoos desktop search is also rather keen on the personal bits and bytes. If you look at this data saving, over exaggerating a bit, then you will find at latest when companies are involved, that, should the data get into the wrong hands, this could be disastrous and even cause the ruin of a company. Of course, Google has no interest to hand over data to third persons, but wasn’t it the USA, that thought, currently on Wikileaks published data was save? And we all know what happened.

So one is allowed to think about the worst case scenario, considering all the affairs around data that occurred lately. Because, if you transport such an affair to the business level, then it is time and it is appropriate to be very concerned.

Companies save design studies, plans, bank data, information about employees and plans for prototypes. That is a lot of sensitive data, which needs to be protected and shouldn’t be laying on some servers somewhere in the USA. That is one of the best reasons why companies shouldn’t use this kind of search engines. But not all search engines work like that. Lookeen can help you.

Lookeen is different

And right here the line will be written, where the desktop search from Lookeen has to be mentioned. Because, aside the well known E-Mail search function in Outlook, Lookeen is able to serve as a desktop search as well. It searches and sets up an index, without a search engine cant function, but now the difference comes into effect. And you better believe it; the complete index is only saved on the local personal computer, aka your own personal computer that has started the search. In thus the data remains with the owner and won’t go wandering to far away servers of companies that aren’t transparent and that no one has control over.

Photo: Markus Henkel

17.08.10 |

Enron – A legacy as proving ground for Lookeen

The crash of the US-American energy tycoon Enron was spectacular and it was a perfect test bench for Lookeen.

Enron started of perfectly.

The fusion of Houston Natural Gas and Internorth formed Enron back in 1985. Soon after the fusion, they became the biggest natural gas distributor in the USA and Great Britain. Changes in the top management and planned projects in India allowed the shares to climb between December 2000 and August 2001 from $ 20 to over $100 a piece.

But in autumn 2001 Enron had to admit, that they had financial problems and turned to the Department of Commerce. An audit was issued and under growing pressure, Enron was forced to provide a revised version of the quarterly financial statement and the result was devastating:

The revised statement showed that there was a loss of more then half a billion U.S. dollars. Enron had to admit to fraudulent claims of more then 1.2 Billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. As a result the shares fell so deep, that they were taken of the stock market in December.

Enron was ruined

The crash of Enron left more then 20.000 employees jobless, with their retirement provisions and their savings in form of Enron shares gone. The trial following the crash handed out penalties and prison sentences to managers and accountant clerks, but was unable to retrieve the money lost.

To avoid this happening again, the SEC and the controlling institution for energy trade published a cleaned up data file of Enron, containing 500.000 Emails in may 2002.This data is used for analysing and testing purposes of universities and companies. Among the resulting projects is the SimStudent-Project of the Carnegie Mellon University, another is a publication of the School of Computing in Queens.

What has that got to do with Lookeen?

A data file with the size of the Enron-File is in a lot of companies rather common today, especially because of the increased E-Mail traffic. Corporate projects, increased correspondence and, unfortunately, Spam-Mails are causing the mail accounts of the associates to overflow regularly. The search for the right mail, the proper annex, relevant documents, pictures or presentations on an exchange server, on mobile data carriers or the hard drive needs more and more time.

Therefore the quality management of Axonic Informationsdienste GmbH used the publicly available Data Package of Enron as a test bench to run Lookeen through last tests and to gain structured testing protocols. The task is, to search and index the file with a size of six GB within an acceptable timeframe. Lookeen can be tested under conditions as they are in Companies: reliability, speed and quality are tested over and over again and improved if necessary.

30.09.09 |

Lookeen is a Desktop Search!

On a daily basis, we, the Lookeen-team, receive calls and emails from customers all over the world, who tell us how convinced they are by Lookeen and how much they would like to have a similar tool for their folder structure in Windows.

Lookeen ist eine Desktopsuche

A lot of Windows users have already noticed the benefits of a desktop search and took advantage of it. However, you do not need additional tools to browse your desktop – because the function of a complete desktop search is already included in Lookeen.
You just have to add the desired folder by using the Lookeen options. After you have done that, Lookeen will also index all folders in Windows and provide a full text search for the most common file types, like for instance:

  • Microsoft Office Word (.doc, .docx)
  • Microsoft Office Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)
  • Adobe Portable (.pdf)
  • Websites (.htm, .html)
  • PHP-files (.php)
  • Extensible Markup Language (.xml)
  • Richtext files (.txt, .rtf)

Have you already been wondering a lot of times where the individual information is exactly stored? On which server you can find the desired document? Was this file shared in the network by Mr. Meier – or by Mr. Schmidt?
This is no problem for Lookeen. You can also add an unlimited number of network resources or complete servers in order to access the required information quickly and easily.

Whatever you need – Lookeen will find it for you!

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