Sifting Through the Digital Mess

from the I-know-I-put-it-somewhere dept

We're increasingly churning out large amounts of information and storing it in our huge hard drives (do you remember when 500MB was more than you could ever use?). Of course finding that information after we've safely stored it tends to be more difficult as time goes by. Luckily, as our digital stores grow companies are building solutions to help us recover our misplaced information and best of all the solutions are free. These solutions will become increasingly important as our hard disks increase in size and manual searching becomes too cumbersome!
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    Anonymous Coward, 16 Oct 2000 @ 2:43pm

    great link!!!!!!

    thanks for linking to the article. The author describes one of my biggest problems using my PC. I downloaded the software enfish onespace - it will save me hours searching for files and finding the right piece of information somewhere on my harddrive.

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    Azim, 18 Oct 2000 @ 12:41am

    Are there any other products?

    Very interesting info. Personal Search Enginge - I have not seen too many startups working in this space apart from the one mentoined. Are there any other products/solutions?

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      Ryan, 18 Oct 2000 @ 9:06am

      Re: Are there any other products?

      I know two other similar products/solutions. One of them is Kenjin from Autonomy. The other is by purpleyogi.com. Both are variations of intelligent personal search agents. Enjoy!

      Disclaimer: I nearly worked for Purpleyogi.com and this is not an endorsement from Techdirt.com

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