And so the search to get better results continues with TigerLogic's ChunkIt! a personal Search Engine. Basically you download their software which sits in with your browser and you choose your search engine, run the search on the ChunkIt! interface. Then you see the search engine results on the right, and on the left you get to see the page with the keywords in context. It is a bit like a super thumbnail option. There are a few of these out there already, with various Firefox extensions for example.
This kind of resource has been characterised as a 'download and overlay' resource, and for me, it just doesn't work. It ties me to a specific machine, I can get almost the same information I need from a good preview window without downloading anything, and I can pretty much write a search strategy that gets me the content I need in the context I want. Admittedly not everyone can of course, but for those who can't, are they really going to want to go to the level of downloading/installing and then using something like this? I can't see it happening myself.
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