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Product Description:
Using your favorite search engine is easy. Finding the information you need is harder. Instead of spending your time clicking through page after page of search engine results, why not search smarter with theConcept?
theConcept queries your favorite search engine, visits each search result and analyzes the text from each linked page -- leaving you with time for more important matters. When it's finished, theConcept presents you with the key words and phrases defining the very essence of your search -- and an intuitive interface to explore each one: generate reports on important citations, cross-reference and distill your sources and leverage the power of our Beholder application to find related images on the web.
How does it work? theConcept uses data mining technology to summarize hundreds of web pages into something more manageable, allowing you to focus on important topics and content. And if you need to extend your reach to your desktop, theConcept can also read files on your computer and digest hundreds of documents just as effortlessly.
In a time when everybody's asking about the future of search, why wait for next-generation tools when you can start data mining for knowledge today? Whether you have serious work to do or are just curious about the web's view on a particular subject, theConcept can help turn information overload into information insight.
A limited trial version of theConcept may be evaluated free of charge. Download your copy today and start searching in a whole new way.
What's new in this version:
- new standard plugins location
- expanded plugin support (e.g. Wikipedia)
- updated find box UI for 10.2 (Jaguar)
- other minor fixes
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (4.5) |
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Agreed: needs more scope 
- Version: 1.1.2, 2/19/2005 11:18AM PST
(5 of 5 users found this comment useful)
Luggnutt
Interesting concept, but... - Version: 1.1.2, 1/27/2005 01:36PM PST
(4 of 4 users found this comment useful)
bignumoneTHAT would excite me.
It does tend to shut down when taxed on OSX.2.8.
Although it was fairly easy to use, when I had a question on how to do something, I found the documentation lacking. I think the features are fine for general web searches, but for anything technical I can't see using it.
But to be fair, I although I won't use it because it does not do what I need, it is a pretty neat little tool. Maybe I am just not using it right and it can do what I want sans the graphs. The publisher could reply and I will reinvestigate if it does.
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- Interesting concept, but...
Right On - Version: 1.0.1, 8/16/2004 04:10PM PST
(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)
MachoMan X
I've tried researching a variety of topics with this, and do not see how its utility. As is, it only searches the web w/ a google search then returns a huge list of keywords that relate to the search.
Here's the problem: if I'm new to the search topic, I want a single source to introduce me to it, which is what google does. If I know the topic well and am doing in-depth searching, I could generate a better, more relevant list of keywords myself (in less time, btw). I could then google those keywords myself, which is all this does anyway.
The only value I can see in this program is in doing lots of parallel searches on related words. In that case, this does it all in one step. As is, however, there is far too much noise in the resulting keys, confusing the newcomer and annoyting the veteren.
HOWEVER, if this app was able to dig through abstracts at PubMed, ISI, Compendex and the like (as mentioned by previous review), as well as google, and then summaraize them all in a single index, it would make a wealthy man out of the developer.