[IP] Try Googling Watson...:)
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 13, 2005 8:26:25 AM EST
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Try Googling Watson...:)
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[Note: This item comes from friend Janos Gereben. DLH]
From: "JanosG" <janosg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 12, 2005 8:46:28 AM PST
Subject: Try Googling Watson...:)
[... and you pretty much see the justification to take a look at
Watson, the Little Search Engine That (Maybe) Could. To be fair, if
you Google "Watson search," you get closer. NB: If you want to try
Watson, be sure to read Dawn's warnings at the end of the article.]
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/columnists/
dawn_chmielewski/13388016.htm>
Tool helps you find stuff that you didn't know you were looking for
By Dawn Chmielewski, Mercury News / 12/12/2005
Here in Silicon Valley, we're search snobs. We act like the whole
notion of searching the Web was practically invented here.
Certainly, with Google and Yahoo, we enjoy considerable bragging
rights. But a little-known company out of Chicago has created a
search assistant called Watson that turns the traditional seek-and-
ye-shall-find approach to online information on its head.
Watson is a downloadable piece of software that sits in the corner
of your computer screen, like AOL's Instant Messenger, and looks
over your shoulder as you work.
Watson could well represent the next step in Web search. By adding
intelligence and context to what is now mostly a popularity
contest, the search results are clearly more relevant to you,
although its desktop omnipresence (like an editor hovering over
your words) can sometimes get on your nerves.
Instead of entering key words or phrases into a search box, Watson
constantly scours the Internet for information related to the
PowerPoint presentation you're reviewing, the Word document you're
crafting, the e-mail you're reading or the Web site you're
browsing. <snip>
Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>
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