BleepingComputer.com: Startup Called Webaroo Touts 'Web On A Hard Drive'

<img src='/images/misc/radar.gif' style='float:right' vspace='8' hspace='8'> <b>Search the Web from your laptop or handheld -- without an Internet connection of any kind?<br /> </b><br /><br />By Paul McNamara on Sun, 04/09/2006 - 9:30am<br /> <br /> This seeming impossibility is what a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup called Webaroo has set out to realize -- they call it "search unplugged" -- and even company president Brad Husick concedes that he found the idea "crazy" at first blush.<br /> <br /> Of course, it wasn't that long ago that a laptop with an 80-gigabyte hard drive seemed crazy, too. But ever-more-monstrous drives are common today and they serve as the foundation upon which Webaroo is basing its free, ad-supported search service. The company and service officially emerge from behind their stealth shield tomorrow armed with a flashy bundling agreement from laptop maker Acer.<br /> <br /><br /> <div class='newslinks'><img src='http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/public/style_images/1/cs_page.gif'> <b>Link: <a href='http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/5388&t5' target='_blank'><font color='red'>Network World Article </font></a><br /><img src='http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/style_images/1/cs_page.gif'> <b>Link: <a href='http://www.webaroo.com/' target='_blank'><font color='red'>Webaroo</font></a><br />