Pinot is a D-Bus service that crawls, indexes your documents and monitors them for changes, and a GTK-based user interface that enables to query the index built by the service and your favourite Web engines, and display and analyse the results.

Version 0.98 was released on November 7th 2011.

Pinot was previous hosted on BerliOS at pinot.berlios.de

It features:

• advanced queries (probabilistic search, boolean filters, wildcards, ranges on date, time and size).

• language detection.

• insensitive to diacritics (accents).

• Chinese, Japanese and Korean support.

• searching while indexing.

• documents browsing.

• editing of metadata.

• documents labeling.

• stored queries.

• results ranking history.

• results lists export.

• dynamic document summaries.

• only crawl and index the directories you choose.

• D-Bus interface for easy integration with other applications, eg Deskbar Applet, Catfish.

• no dependency on GNOME or KDE.

• support for common file types.

• search your desktop and the Web.

• query remote indexes.

• laptop friendly.