Yesterday a new product hit the market called Webaroo which allows you to search the Web while you're offline.
I thought this was pretty strangeroo, so I installed it to see how it works. You need to download packs of data into your library. I downloaded the "world news" pack (about 64MB), then disconnected my machine from the network and did a few quick searches.
Firstly, most of the news was sourced from the US or UK, with most major news outlets were present in the search results. Secondly, what was quite handy is that Webaroo keeps a cache of the full-story pages so you can see them as they appeared on the site they come from. You can set your account preferences to update automatically when your computer is online, so that takes a lot of the hassle out of the update process. Webaroo also supports mobile devices.
As a frequent traveler to places with little or no connectivity, this is a great tool and I see myself using it a lot.
This is a really great idea. I wonder how widely...
