Move over Google Sidebar

Iria · Sep 23, 2005, 05:37 AM

A Chicago-based company is set to launch on Friday technology that will compete with Google Desktop Search and its Sidebar customization feature.

Watson 2.0 is designed to understand the context of the text a computer user is reading or creating and automatically offer up relevant news articles, Word documents and other Web- or PC-based information--without the privacy concerns Google's service has raised--and in real-time.

The context-sensitive Windows search tool, developed by Chicago-based Intellext, is based on technology developed at Northwestern University.

"Nothing gets sent to our servers," as with Google's Sidebar service, said Al Wasserberger, chief executive of Intellext. Sidebar users only get the customized news and other feeds if they opt in to sending information to Google servers about what documents and Web pages are being viewed.

"Watson 2.0 uses an artificial intelligence approach to understand what you are working on and formulate queries," he said. "It sends the queries to the online (information) sources and compares the results against the document you are working on and then sorts (the results) according to relevance."
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twoodcc · Sep 23, 2005, 05:59 AM

interesting. i wonder how quick it is, or really how "real-time" it is

Sep 23, 2005, 05:37 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Move over Google Sidebar A Chicago-based company is set to launch on Friday technology that will compete with Google Desktop Search and its Sidebar customization feature. Watson 2.0 is designed to understand the context of the text a computer user is reading or creating and automatically offer up relevant news articles, Word documents and other Web- or PC-based information--without the privacy concerns Google's service has raised--and in real-time. The context-sensitive Windows search tool, developed by Chicago-based Intellext, is based on technology developed at Northwestern University. "Nothing gets sent to our servers," as with Google's Sidebar service, said Al Wasserberger, chief executive of Intellext. Sidebar users only get the customized news and other feeds if they opt in to sending information to Google servers about what documents and Web pages are being viewed. "Watson 2.0 uses an artificial intelligence approach to understand what you are working on and formulate queries," he said. "It sends the queries to the online (information) sources and compares the results against the document you are working on and then sorts (the results) according to relevance." ___________ Read More / Source: ZDNet

Sep 23, 2005, 05:59 AM	#2
twoodcc DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 143 Rep Power: 0	interesting. i wonder how quick it is, or really how "real-time" it is