Download The Internet With Webaroo

Posted by John Goulden Categories: Corporate News, Internet, Software

Webaroo is software that lets you download “web packs” of information, that you can later search and browse offline.  Products that allow you to download and store Internet content are already available, but Webaroo claims that their software and methodology are different than the norm.  Buzz words like “Content Density” and “Smart Caching” are at the core of Webaroo’s approach to saving only the relevant content, with none of the junk.

Content Density as explained by Webaroo is where their servers “. . . crawl the web, analyze web pages and select the subset of pages that maximize Content Density (i.e. the most content value in the least storage size).  Webaroo determines the content value based on the diversity and quality of the pages.  The more diverse the set of pages, the more queries they are likely to be able to answer.  The more high quality the pages, the more likely they are to contain meaningful information for users.  Our content density software can be focused on the whole web, or on those parts of the web having to do with a specific topic (baseball, for example).  The subset of pages it selects is packaged into a “Web Pack”.” 

Smart Caching works as an update mechanism for the Web Packs.  By downloading only the items that have changed, and discarding cahced items that are out of date and no longer relevenat it uses less resources and saves space.  Even if a user disconnects in the middle of a download, it will resume where it left off when connectivity is restored.

The software, currently in beta phase, can be downloaded not only for use on a PC, but for PocketPC and Smartphone devices as well.

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