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Saturday, May 11, 2002
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,40439,FF.html Will Watson Make Web Browsers Obsolete? Erick Schonfeld We are slaves to our browsers. How many webpages will you look at today? Between job-related sites and just plain goofing off, I'd say it's at least 50 per person -- and for some people it's a multiple of that. We click away our days to get to the sea of data that is out there beckoning to us -- the news, airline schedules, recipes for Cajun catfish, and anything else we can think of. Unfortunately, though, our browsers are not terribly efficient at organizing information. Even with bookmarks and Google, all that information is available just one page at a time. Or is it? A program called Watson, written by Karelia Software for Apple (AAPL) Macintoshes computers running OS X, could be a harbinger of things to come. A play on the Sherlock search program that comes with all Macs, Watson is a downloadable $39 application that sits on your desktop and pulls data from a multitude of websites. It strips out the ads and graphics to present only the information you want, in a clean, intuitive, consistent interface....
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