Subject: Answers.com

Yesterday's edition (Thursday, January 27, 2005) of the Wall Street Journal contains a wonderful resource nugget. Walter Mossberg, who writes about technology issues, shared his take on a free website and free software application that is a terrific supplement to search engines such as Google, AskJeeves, etc.

This program will allow you to push the "Alt" button on your keyboard and then "click" with your mouse on a word - any word - in any type of document - Word, Excel, databases, websites - and up comes a screen with that word's definition and specific links to find out more - images of it, webpage links to it, etc. It is a gold mine to help you in your everyday work. It provides data, not just a bunch of weblinks which may, or may not, be useful.

Go to: www.answers.com to learn more. They have a free Flash demo there hat will show you what it does. So far one million pages of information are stored there, which isn't huge compared to some search engines, but it is a cool and growing site.

****Find information on a company – Type in the company name. Example: “Analog Devices”

This could be a very useful tool during your job search….