Lookeen is anenterprise search anddesktop search product released in 2008 byAxonic Informationssysteme GmbH .
Lookeen was developed in 2007[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Microsoft .[ 4] local drives ,Microsoft Outlook andMicrosoft Exchange Server files, and any connectednetwork drives from standard orvirtual desktops .[ 5]
About.com Reader's Choice award for Best Outlook Add-In in 2010[ 6] [ 7] PCMagazine ,[ 8] The Atlantic ,[ 9] Inc Magazine ,[ 10] PCWorld ,[ 11] Ghacks ,[ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] TechCrunch in September 2015.[ 16] The New York Times in December 2016.[ 17]
Lookeen is built upon theopen source software ,Lucene . The index framework builds aninverted index to allow fast full text searches within indexed content. Lookeen uses Microsoftadd-in technology to integrate a search bar and ribbon into theOutlook client.
Axonic launchedenterprise 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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