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• Watson 2.0, to be launched on Friday by Intellext, is designed to understand the context of the text a computer user is reading or creating and automatically offer relevant news articles, Word documents and other Web- or PC-based information--without the privacy concerns Google's service has raised--and in real time.
• The context-sensitive Windows search tool is based on technology developed at Northwestern University.
• "Nothing gets sent to our servers," as with Google's Sidebar service, said Al Wasserberger, chief executive of Intellext.
• (People using Sidebar only get the customized news and other feeds if they opt in to sending information to Google servers about what documents and Web pages are being viewed.)
• "Watson 2.0 uses an artificial-intelligence approach to understand what you are working on and formulate queries," he said.
• "It sends the queries to the online (information) sources and compares the results against the document you are working on and then sorts (the results) according to relevance."
• Previous Next Like Google's Desktop Search and Sidebar, the software scours data from a variety of sources on the computer, Word documents, e-mail, spreadsheets, and from Web sites, including news sources and blogs, but it offers up relevant information in real time rather than learning over time, as Sidebar seems to do.
• Watson 2.0's side-pane interface does not squeeze in other information, such as a scratch pad, photos, quick-view history and weather, that Google's Sidebar offers, but it does take up a tad bit more real estate, or space on the screen, with the results it does offer.
• Watson 2.0 also allows the user to add and modify the information sources being searched.

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