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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: May 08, 2003 What do you know about the story of ZooWorks? -- "What's amazing to me is that a piece of software that I need now, was produced six years ago and is totally gone." (Comments: I wonder how often software evaporates like this.)
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I searched the web and found this list of URL organisers. Most of the entries date between 1995 and 1997. My guess is that browsers' bookmarking facilities became just good enough to reduce the potential market for these products to a non-viable size. It's happened before, e.g. there used to be a lot of extended memory managers for MS-DOS but Microsoft eventually incorporated good enough memory management into the OS and 3rd-part memory managers died. Posted by: Philip Chalmers on May 9, 2003 03:19 AM
What interests me is how little "good enough" eventually learns from "better" products. Posted by: on May 9, 2003 05:58 AM
A tip I got from one of the readers of the first article was that IE6 has this functionality. I have upgraded and tested on Windows 2000. It works! Slow, whole strings only (searched for "muffin", found "muffin" but not "muffin?") and I haven't tested yet if it displayed multiple accurances of the same page in the cache. Posted by: Hanan Cohen on May 9, 2003 06:05 AM
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