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The knowledge of mankind doubles every one to two years, speed increasing. How to cope with this unbelievable huge mass of data? How to find that very document you are looking for? How to find the answer to your question? DEVONagent is the solution for you if you are tired of clicking hundreds of links delivered by Google & Co. just to find out that most of the links are either outdated, broken or lead to junk pages. It communicates with search engines, digs for you through all the results and gives you only those documents that are really worth reading. Even better, it summarizes the accumulated knowledge and presents you with a list of the most important topics and an interactive mind map. Finding information on the Web has never been easier! Your Research Assistant: DEVONagent finds, collects and organizes information with a powerful search architecture, a simple to use built-in archive and perfect integration with DEVONthink. More than 130 plugins for popular search engines, databases and search tools, predefined search sets, and a clean Mac-like user interface make DEVONagent the number one tool for finding information on the web for the Mac. DEVONthink companion: Collect search results as plain or rich text, web archive or as PDF directly in your DEVONthink database with just one click and from any view. Then use DEVONthink's intelligence to organize it.
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This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- fast Internet connection
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About me: This review is based on more than two years of attempting to use DevonAgent to automate my searches. I am a computer professional who has programmed in multiple languages, maintains multiple websites, and am very familiar with web technologies.
Bottom line: I can almost always find what I'm looking for faster using Google or one of the other search engines. DevonAgent is so finicky that I spend much more time messing with it than I would spend just visually scanning through Google search results. I keep trying to make it work as I would like, but it never does. Furthermore, support is lacking. Just go checkout the Developer's website forums for "DevonAgent Troubleshooting." There are a huge number of unanswered questions and problems. I've seen this before from software developers - they love their technology, but they don't love their customers. I happen to think that the business should be about customers, not about the product. Maybe I'm old fashioned.
Specific examples:
1. DevonAgent can't be successfully used to search eBay auctions. The company has known about this for years, but won't fix it. This is an obvious use for a tool like this.
2. I can do a Google search using a set of simple terms, and repeat that search using "internet fast scan" in DevonAgent. The Google search always returns a more complete and up to date set of results. The set returned in DevonAgent consists mostly of outdated pages, but more importantly, lacks many of the results found by Google. I don't know why this is, but I suspect the filtering in DevonAgent is at fault.
3. I can use a search expression such as "Fred NEAR Wilma" which means that the two terms must be found near one another in the returned page (usually within 10 words distance). Yet I get results where the terms are not near each other.
4. If I do a search at one level of depth, DevonAgent's disk usage blows up quickly to many gigabytes.
There are many more little issues like this. Each one on its own could be overlooked. But I face at least one or two such problems almost every time I try to use DevonAgent, and it gets quite annoying, when Google is so much easier to use. I still want a tool that does what DevonAgent promises to do, but unfortunately, version 2 of DA does not deliver on these promises.