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 Lookeen desktop search results - screenshot | |
| Developer(s) | Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH |
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| Stable release | 12.0.1.6400 / 7 June 2020 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | English, German |
| Type | Desktop search, enterprise search |
| Website | lookeen |
Lookeen is an enterprise search and desktop search product released in 2008 by Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH.
Lookeen was developed in 2007 [1] as an email search tool replacement for Lookout, [2] [3] which left the market when it was purchased by Microsoft. [4] Lookeen enables users to search for files on their local drives, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server files, and any connected network drives from standard or virtual desktops. [5]
Lookeen won the About.com Reader's Choice award for Best Outlook Add-In in 2010 [6] and 2011, [7] and has been reviewed by PCMagazine, [8] The Atlantic, [9] Inc Magazine, [10] PCWorld, [11] and Ghacks, [12] among others [13] [14] [15] Lookeen was also one of 29 productivity apps recommended in an article on TechCrunch in September 2015. [16] Lookeen was also mentioned as a 3rd party search utility by The New York Times in December 2016. [17]
Lookeen is built upon the open source software, Lucene. The index framework builds an inverted index to allow fast full text searches within indexed content. Lookeen uses Microsoft add-in technology to integrate a search bar and ribbon into the Outlook client.
Axonic launched enterprise search capabilities in 2012 with Lookeen Server, a Microsoft server-based index which can deliver search results to multiple desktop clients. A free version, Lookeen Free, was released in 2015. [18]
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