Apple: Search Still Missing from Its Core
June 5, 2020
How about that search function for the App Store? The “new” and “improved” baby iTunes?
This new AI-powered search platform targets a very specific audience. DEVONagent is tailor made for researchers who do their work on Macs, not PCs. It gathers search results from user-specified search engines and removes irrelevant results. Furthermore, it will check selected websites and notify the user when something new matches their query. The description reveals:
“DEVONagent filters everything on its own. Use advanced Boolean operators, proximity operators, and wildcards of unlimited complexity even when the search engines can’t handle them. DEVONagent finds, e.g., galleries or linked documents for you too. Its unique See Also list lets you dig deeper. Read a smart summary of the results, go through them one by one, or explore them with the topics map. Archive the good ones, discard the others. DEVONagent’s web browser, built for research, lets you extract images, news feeds, links, email addresses, even linked documents, with a single click and save them for reference or reuse. The searchable archive keeps your results for reference. Alternatively send them to DEVONthink or save them as files. DEVONagent exports your research in a variety of formats, from a simple list of bookmarks to comprehensive RTF digests and PDF reports. Save your search to continue later on or share it with your coworkers.”
There is a free version, called DEVONagent Lite, but the search assistant earns its keep through two paid versions: Pro ($49.95) and Express ($4.95). DEVONtechnologies uses AI to manage torrents of information; its other products include an app to manage documents and one to map connections between seemingly unrelated pieces of data. (Yes, those are also iOS-specific.) Based in Coeur D’alene, Idaho, the company was founded in 2002.
Cynthia Murrell, June 6, 2020
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