Watson, a new meta desktop search engine released by Intellext, forms contextually based queries that are designed to produce more relevant search results. "It understands the overall gist of what you're working on and selects terms of the query that you use over and over. It tempers that with what slide or paragraph you're on at that moment," says Intellext founder Jay Budzik. Once Watson figures out what the user is looking for, it goes out and rummages through indices created by other applications to offer additional suggestions. The advantage of the index-free approach is that it doesn't hog resources by creating filing systems that other applications have already produced, says Intellext CEO Al Wasserberger: "We don't want to index the Internet -- or your desktop. There are lots of people that know how to do that. We leverage all third parties; we don't do it ourselves." Watson can gather results from Web sites, desktop search applications, online news sites, as well as subscriber services and search engines. In a corporate setting, the meta search engine also culls information from a company's corporate knowledge management system, databases and intranet.
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