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May 20, 2025 · 12:04 PM

Law Firms and Major Enterprises Are Rapidly Moving to X1 Search As Traditional Enterprise Search Becomes Obsolete

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier

Are you tired of wasting hours each week fruitlessly searching across emails, documents, cloud services, and local drives? You’re not alone. Law firms and major enterprises are increasingly recognizing the inherent limitations of legacy enterprise search solutions and turning decisively toward X1 Search.

X1 Search delivers a revolutionary user-based search experience that dramatically boosts productivity. Demand for X1 Search has skyrocketed this year—one major federal agency is expanding from 20,000 to over 40,000 licenses to equip every employee. Nearly half of AMLAW 100 firms now deploy or are actively considering X1. Why this rapid shift?

Traditional enterprise search solutions are fundamentally broken in today’s hybrid-cloud enterprise landscape. They rely heavily on outdated architectures that require mass data duplication and centralization—approaches rendered obsolete by remote work and distributed platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Specifically, traditional tools face:

  1. Scalability Roadblocks: Centralizing terabytes of distributed unstructured data is now effectively impossible in the modern enterprise.
  2. Incompatibility with Modern Platforms: Legacy systems struggle to integrate effectively with platforms like Microsoft 365 due to restrictive APIs and loss of security permissions when the data is copied and exported en masse.
  3. Regulatory and Governance Challenges: Mass duplication of sensitive data violates critical data protection regulations and contradicts fundamental information governance principles. The GDPR specifically mandates data minimization, particularly when viable alternative technologies exist, as evaluated through a Data Privacy Impact Analysis (DPIA).

Employees in modern organizations effectively have two viable search options: the limited native Windows search or the robust, efficient capabilities of X1 Search. Microsoft Copilot itself recently highlighted X1 Search’s advantages:

“X1 Search offers advanced indexing, instant search-as-you-type capabilities, powerful filtering, keyword highlighting, and document/email previews, significantly surpassing standard Windows Search. Moreover, X1 seamlessly searches across emails, documents, cloud storage, archived data, and more—far beyond Windows Search capabilities.”

X1 Search introduces an entirely new, distributed search architecture uniquely suited to today’s enterprise environments:
• Distributed Micro-Indexing: Patented technology ensures secure, permission-aligned indexing, granting employees immediate, secure access to authorized data only.
• No Mass Data Duplication: Interact directly with original documents without unnecessary duplication, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
• True Federated Search: Search instantly and iteratively across M365, Google Workspace, Slack, and local data sources within a single unified search field—a capability unmatched by any other solution.

The latest X1 Search transcends desktop limitations, instantly searching Microsoft Email, Teams, Slack, OneDrive, SharePoint, local files, and now Google Drive and Gmail, all from one intuitive interface. This empowers users to reclaim hours each day, dramatically boosting productivity.

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October 29, 2024 · 10:54 AM

Microsoft Copilot Explains Why X1 Search is Far Better than Windows Search

By Chas Meier

We’ve been hearing a lot of good things about Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI chat bot. So, we asked Copilot the following prompt:

“Is X1 Search better than the standard Windows Search?

Here is Copilot’s reply in full:

“Yes, X1 Search offers many advantages over standard Windows Search, especially if you’re dealing with large volumes of documents and emails. It integrates with multiple data sources, provides faster and more efficient searches, and offers advanced filtering and preview options that standard Windows Search lacks. For someone in your line of work, X1 Search could be a real game-changer.”

Intrigued, we explored further:

“What are the advantages of X1 search over standard Windows search?

Copilot:

“Great question! Here are some key advantages of X1 Search over standard Windows Search:

  1. Unified Search Across Multiple Data Sources: X1 Search can search across emails, documents, local files, cloud storage (like Google Drive, OneDrive, Box), and even archived emails. Windows Search, on the other hand, is limited to your local files and doesn’t integrate as seamlessly with cloud services.
  2. Speed and Efficiency: X1 Search uses advanced indexing and fast-as-you-type search capabilities, allowing you to find information almost instantly. Windows Search can be slower, especially when dealing with large volumes of data.
  3. Advanced Filtering and Preview Options: X1 Search offers powerful filtering options, keyword highlighting, and full fidelity previews of documents and emails without needing to open them fully. This makes it easier to quickly identify relevant information. Windows Search lacks these advanced features.
  4. Integration with Email and Collaboration Tools: X1 Search integrates deeply with email clients like Outlook and Microsoft Teams, allowing you to search through emails, attachments, chats, and more. Windows Search doesn’t offer this level of integration.
  5. Cloud Data Search: X1 Search can index and search data stored in cloud repositories like Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box, which Windows Search doesn’t support.
  6. User Friendly Interface: X1 Search provides a simple, unified interface with over 50 refine columns, making it easy to navigate and find exactly what you need. Windows Search’s interface is more basic and less intuitive.

Does this help clarify the advantages for you?”

Yes, it does! Thank you, Microsoft Copilot! We could not have said it any better.

X1 Search is available for individual purchase on the X1 website and large volume, enterprise purchase by contacting X1 at sales@x1.com. To learn more about X1 Search visit  www.x1.com/solutions/x1-search.

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July 23, 2024 · 10:55 AM

Enterprise Search is Dead. A New Approach is Here.

By John Patzakis

In today’s fast-paced digital world, employee productivity hinges on robust enterprise search capabilities that allow quick and easy retrieval of an organization’s documents, emails, and other unstructured data. Despite the critical nature of this capability, many organizations have historically invested considerable time, money, and effort into now-obsolete tools built on flawed enterprise search architectures. These legacy tools, often ineffective, have become completely untenable in the era of remote work and the widespread use of platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace (formerly G Suite).

The Limitations of Traditional Enterprise Search
Traditional enterprise search architectures rely on gathering all relevant data through crawling and mass migration tools, centralizing it into a single repository. This approach, though prevalent for years, has significant drawbacks:

  1. Security and Governance Risks: Duplicating and then centralizing sensitive data in a single repository creates a prime target for cyberattacks, runs afoul with data protection regulations, and is completely contrary to information governance principles.
  2. Scalability Issues: The sheer volume of data in modern enterprises, often amounting to hundreds of terabytes, makes central repositories impossible.
  3. Incompatibility with Modern Platforms: Legacy systems are ill-suited to integrate with platforms like Microsoft 365, which are now dominant in enterprise environments.

Duplicating vast amounts of sensitive data and centralizing it in an external repository is not only risky but also extremely impractical. Despite this, some vendors continue to push these outdated solutions, ignoring the evolving needs of modern enterprises.

X1 Search: A Revolutionary Approach
X1 Search addresses these challenges with a game-changing approach that offers a distributed, individualized enterprise search workflow. This innovative architecture brings several key benefits:

  1. Distributed Index and Search In-Place Technology: X1’s proprietary and patented technology enables scalable search capabilities while maintaining robust security. Each employee has an individual search index aligned with their permissions, ensuring they only access data they are authorized to see.
  2. No Mass Data Duplication: Unlike traditional systems, X1 does not require the mass duplication of data. Users interact with original documents and emails, facilitating actions like opening, replying to, or forwarding them directly from the search interface.

Enhancing Productivity with Unified Search
The latest iteration of X1 Search transcends its desktop origins, offering the ability to instantly search across various platforms, including Microsoft email, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, as well as local files and emails, all within a single unified interface. This powerful capability can significantly boost productivity, saving users hours each day by streamlining access to critical information. Additionally, X1 Search now supports Google Drive and Gmail, broadening its utility across different cloud ecosystems.

User Experience and Endorsements
A critical aspect of X1 Search’s success is its excellent user experience. With over 100,000 users, the solution has garnered widespread acclaim. Max Underwood, a long-time user from a large defense contracting firm, states, “X1 Search is my go-to, must-have search application on my desktop. Nothing even comes close to matching X1 Search’s speed and accuracy in finding what I am looking for exactly when I need it.”

Conclusion
As organizations navigate the complexities of remote work and vast amounts of unstructured data, traditional enterprise search solutions fall short. X1 Search’s innovative approach, leveraging distributed index and search in-place technology, offers a secure, scalable, and user-friendly alternative. By eliminating the need for mass data duplication and providing a unified search experience across multiple platforms, X1 Search is setting a new standard for enterprise search capabilities, empowering employees and enhancing productivity in the modern digital workplace.

X1 Search is available for individual purchase on the X1 website and large volume, enterprise purchase by contacting X1 at sales@x1.com. To learn more about X1 Search visit www.x1.com/products/x1-search.

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