Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 19th Jul 2002 18:36 UTC
Remember a month ago, when I urged the open source developers to take on this software and develop something equivelant and multi-platform? It seems that the only people who actually got interested in my $100 USD offer... was Apple.
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I can agree with that.
What Watson/Sherlock do, is literally leaching data off the web.
I agree with this too, but this exactly supports the notion that Sherlock3 is nothing more than Sherlock2, which also offers searching capabilites on remote sites, but with more areas to search.
Take Yahoo for example, they offer almost all the same 'areas of search' (yellow pages, directions, entertainment), but have an interface only via a brower. Sherlock*2* gave mac users another interface to Yahoo (or any engine of your choice). Now Sherlock*3* is giving new interfaces to YellowPages, etc...
My point is this: Watson saw the value in creating ONE application to act as a new interface for various 'services', _but_ they were not alone in their discovery, Apple had this licked even in the original Sherlock.