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COPYRIGHT 2003 Information Today, Inc.
FLEXITY TECHNOLOGIES, INC. claims its Internet Research Toolbar (IRT) [www.internet-research-toolbar. com/] will "harness the power of online information" and goes on to bill itself as "an enhanced Google just for your own, ever-growing slice of the Web."
Well, maybe not really quite like Google.... IRT doesn't spider and it's not a Web-crawler indexer. It's more of a super-bookmark utility, featuring an easily searchable database, or repository, for the links and allied information content that you collect from the Web. It can also generate properly formatted bibliographic citations referring to your online information. The IRT toolbar delivers powerful information-capturing abilities, whenever you're getting into serious research or trivia-collecting mode.
WHAT THE TOOLBAR DOES
With IRT, a single click saves full URL link information and a copy of the full Web page you're viewing, minus graphics. You can also highlight and select from the active page. After saving, you can additionally highlight important sections for quick identification or specifically for use as quoted material. IRT has plenty of on-board organization power. Besides the potent search capabilities, you can assign...
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