Have you tried against a corpus of text like email? How well does that work? I've been frustrated with the search speed (and results) from email search in general and was wondering if I could do better with an offline search?
That would definitely work. We are working on local client that could index your local PDF and Word documents. So importing emails would be a nice addition.
I'd be interested in seeing how well it performs vs. integrated search. Outlook search (which is what I use) suffers from performance and relevance issues, yet when I tried this experiment with another full-text search provider (Azure Search) it performed worse on relevancy.
I use email as kind of an activity stream - generally I can remember roughly the people involved and the time period. Would be lovely to have search that performs well in this regard.
