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Kenjin was launched officially this week. They claim \"Autonomy Kenjin is the first Internet information service that delivers the right information to you exactly when you need it – no matter where it happens to be. From the Web, from your hard drive or from people who know.\"It works like a search engine, but the program is on your computer. They make it sound like it\'ll kill off Yahoo. I\'ll be downloading and trying it soon.

Features

Auto-Suggest

• Links to related content automatically appear when text is read or typed within any Windows application (Word, WWW, Emails, Excel, PowerPoint...)
• Suggests at regular intervals, or when hot key is pressed.
• Users can choose content sources -- web, news sites, PC hard drive or other users of the service
• Uses full conceptual context of active task or document rather than simply keywords, to ensure the most robust and accurate related content is suggested

User Interface

• Can appear as suggested links become available
• Double-click on link and it automatically opens in the source application
• Can sit on top of all other applications or appear as a toolbar docked to the top or bottom of the screen

Other Features

• Targeted advertisements shown while suggesting links
• Optionally add yourself to the online community of Web users
• Automatically detects addresses, companies and countries in text and can open the relevant map (US/UK/Germany and Italy all currently supported) or company-related information with the click of a mouse