Answers.com Widget Available for OS X

Answers.com Widget Available for OS X

Answers.com Widget Available for OS X
Wednesday June 29, 10:33 am ET

Useful Desktop Utility Provides Instant Answers for Apple Users

NEW YORK, June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GuruNet Corporation (AMEX:
(http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=gru&d=t)GRU -
(http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=gru)News), creators of the Answers.com
((http://www.answers.com)www.answers.com) answer-based search engine,
announced today the beta release of a desktop "widget" to enhance the
Dashboard feature for Apple OS X users. The Answers.com widget provides
access to Answers.com content drawn from Wikipedia, American Heritage
Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Columbia University Press Encyclopedia as
well as maps, company snapshots, stock prices, legal, medical, nutrition
and more from other high-quality sources.

"With widgets, OS X users can access all sorts of information with one
click; now, with the Answers.com widget, they can get actual answers,"
explained Bob Rosenschein, founder and CEO of GuruNet. "As widgets become
more and more central to a Mac owner's day-to-day usage, we hope that
Answers.com will be considered a critical element worthy of inclusion."

The Answers.com widget can be found - together with tools for Windows,
Firefox and mobile devices - on the Answers.com product page, at
(http://www.answers.com/main/product_info.jsp)http://www.answers.com/main/product_info.jsp.

About GuruNet GuruNet Corporation (AMEX:
(http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=gru&d=t)GRU -
(http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=gru)News) operates Answers.com , a leading
answer-based search engine ((http://www.answers.com)www.answers.com).
Founded in 1999 by Bob Rosenschein, GuruNet Corporation
((http://www.gurunet.com)www.gurunet.com) provides patented technology and
software tools to access concise information on demand. More information on
GuruNet is available at (http://www.gurunet.com)www.gurunet.com.

 
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