World on a Hard Drive

Acer will start shipping a condensed 40 gig version of the “World Wide Web” with some of its notebook computers. Webaroo, the search engine behind the software wants people to be able to do research and read news when they aren’t connected to the Internet. The service will scrape the Internet for what it thinks is the good stuff and make it searchable while you’re offline. Sounds to me like Webaroo like a solution looking for a problem-haven’t they heard about Earthlink, Google’s and other company’s plans for blanketing entire regions with WiFi? Oh yeah and what about all those laptops coming with 3G built in? This may have been a great innovation say 10 years ago when accessing the Internet was more of a pain, but this one looks like a flop.

link (via NY Times)