Surfing The Web
GuruNet for Specific Answers
By
Dick Travis
Google
has been the greatest “search engine” around for some time now. Almost everything you want to find on the
web can be found through Google.
However, it can still be a pain to search through thousands of web sites
produced in searches--realizing that many of the sites do not really have
information that has been proven or in many cases is irrelevant to your search.
GuruNet
to the rescue.
GuruNet
is a very useful solution to finding specific answers to whatever it is we need
to know. It provides an interesting way
to check dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotes, weather, city maps, photos, news
and even translates in many languages. It also provides links to Google, Yahoo,
Amazon, Ebay and other popular web sites in “one place”. The user needs to
highlight or enter the search word or words once and all of the above
search engines and reference sites pop up on the screen.
After
highlighting a particular “search word or phrase”, the user needs only to hold
down the Alternate key and left click on the mouse. Now that’s really an improvement of searching all over the
internet to research or define a subject.
This
software is for anyone needing the ability to find reliable information from
the web. All of the data found is
annotated similar to a bibliography. You can Alt/Click on words in Emails, Web
Pages or enter “search words” in a special input area, that can be found in the
lower right corner sitting inconspicuously on your desktop.
Spellchecking
is automatic and the system actually offers alternatives to your misspelled
words. It is pure pleasure to find information that is accurate, timely and
proven without the necessity to scroll through irrelevant sites.
Just
go to gurunet.com and download their free
version. It only takes a few minutes
and automatically installs. When you
download the free version, you are given 7 days with full functionality, with
an option to purchase the software for $24 a year. I have used it free with ample results, but I am tempted to spend
the $2 per month to make researching any subject really easy, but for now, it
still makes finding specific answers to many items easy.
GuruNet works best with places,
sports data, medical references, people, history, nutritional values and other
specific items. So whether you
simply want to have access to accurate information that you can offer as
concrete fact without those annoying questionable web sites, GuruNet is truly a
must have product. I am quite impressed and look forward to seeing what
advancements they offer as this software continues to mature and grow.
The New York Times and other noteworthy
papers have praised GuruNet as the next generation of search tools. Remember, just highlight the word you’re
interested in…and Alternate/Click…and you will have practically all of the
research and search sites including Google at your fingertips. This is truly accurate research in a
click...
Happy Surfing,