diskMETA is an easy to use, simple and effective search software providing instant access to any text data on PC or network. It is specially designed to index up to a million document files. The program will index TXT, DOC, RTF, XLS, HTML, XML, PHP, ASP, PDF, CHM-formatted files, as well as ZIP and RAR archives in the forlders you select to be read. It covers documents stored on local PCs and shared network resources. Simply type in a keyword and the program immediately (1 SEC) displays all relevant results. Each result includes a portion of the document that contains your keyword, and you can simply click the hyperlink to launch the file in its native application, otherwise the text will be reconstructed. Search query can be refined with standard search operators like in a usual web search engine.

diskMETALite is a free version of diskMETA hard disk search engine. This version has all features of the commercial versions but some of them are limited: unlimited number of indexes can be created. Supports only the three document formats .txt., .doc., and .html. Option to add a custom filename extension.