Answers.com
Disclaimer: I used to work for this company – Having said that I would HIGHLY recommend this product in any event.
Answers.com is a free web based knowledge retrieval system. It is not search. It Far Far superior to simple web searching. Web Searching always give you a page that contains the search terms – Answers gives you, well, Answers. For example – lets say you wanted to know about Bluetooth and what it does. With search you would put “bluetooth” into google and get 212,000,0000 results. Many of them selling bluetooth devices. Granted – you could probably find what you were looking for in the first ten results – but it is still a pain to get a basic understanding of a concept (Search – Sort – Read) With Answers you get the information you were looking for in one step. You enter the topic “bluetooth” and you get the following page:
It has a definition, examples, pictures, the wikipedia entry and more.
Now with the Windows client – things got even better! – Answers.com has truly provided information at the user’s fingertips.
The windows client gives you answers in any program in a small window on your screen. You can alt+click (press the alt key while clicking on a word) and you are greeted with a pop-up with the most relevant information for the word you clicked on. If you need more information you can click on the more button at the top. This opens a browser window with ALL the relevant information for the topic you selected.
This latest release of the answers client is very impressive. It is a fastest way to get relevant information I have ever seen. It truly solves the problem of information overload and delivers concise and informative answers.
You can use answers on line at http://www.answers.com
You can download the windows client at http://www.answers.com/main/product_info.jsp
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