ChunkIt—Yet Another Search Plug-In. Yawn.

Oh snap!

IF IT IS A YAWN, THEN WHY WRITE ABOUT IT AND WASTE OUR TIME ????

All I know is that if I’m searching for a specific term buried in a 300 page text document I want to go right to that one paragraph, not just see a picture of the site. I think this may have more merit to it than you are suggesting.

I agree, there are tons of great startups and products out there that would love to have even some bad press on TC…why waste your space telling us about something not worth our time?

Just out of curiosity, are there any of the other tools you mentioned in this post (snap, managedQ, or searchme) that you actually use and would recommend?

Whatever happened to Attensity? I had them in my portfolio of research for BI, and they had a potentially useful Firefox exrension for google searches. It wasn’t ground breaking, but had potential for improvement.

Sorry, sorry, it was Inxight http://www.inxight.com/product.....wnload.php

I just installed ChunkIt! and gave it a try. I decided to use the term “Erick Schonfeld” to see what would turn up. I learned more in 20 seconds than by looking on the actual Techcrunch website.

Agree with 2 and 4. Don’t waste your time or ours writing about something that sucks, just skip it and write about something else that we’ll actually find interesting. There are a billion companies that would love to be featured on TC, mine included. Why not give one of them a chance?

Please review stuff worth reading about.

This has been said already, buy you are wasting your time and ours. (I wanted to post that the moment I read your headline.) See? You just made me waste 20 seconds writing that.

if you don’t find it interesting, don’t review it. the + and - on TC are evening out, and the +’s are declining.

PS: I’m trying really hard not to go to other blogs to get relevant startup/tech news. I do like TechCrunch, but lately some of the stories have been less than satisfactory.

Erick - what are you sorry about? You don’t feel you should be allowed to have an opinion?

The use of “I’m sorry” before stating an opinion is really disingenuous because if you were really sorry you wouldn’t state your opinion. It’s a passive-aggressive platitude. Didn’t you learn in writing class to avoid platitudes?

I am sorry for you too Erick, don’t you ever get bored writing the same stuff everyday, I can’t imagine myself doing your job. Boring and sad!!!

Has Michael Arrington left TechCrunch ? Haven’t seen him writing anything for sometime now. Sorry to say but Michael if you are reading this your other editors (writers) are NOT “up there” with their content .

I would prefer to read ur blogs more.

A TechCrunch reader

I know writers like to stir up controversy, but lets try to stay away from blanket statements. The fact is, this is a different type of tool than Snap, SearchMe, or ManagedQ.

If you’re surfing the web casually, previewing an image of the page can help you make a quick decision whether you want to go there or now. But if you’re in the research business like me, and you’re searching for very specific information, then text matters.

Being able to search the text of all the links on a page without actually clicking each one is huge. I can scroll through the ChunkIt results and quickly have my eye drawn to the context of my search terms, then only go to the page if its exactly what I’m looking for.

I’ve only been using this for a few hours, but I already can see I’ll be using this a lot. If its an easy search where I know Google will get it in the first few links, then I won’t bother. But if its a search where I know I’ll have some hunting to do, I’d use this every time.

Managed Q is my top visual search site. ChunkIt definitely sucks. Good analysis MA.

I was getting email from CIA employees to work my startup search engine. This is crazy as sound but real….

Why won’t they work google, yahoo, ask, live, searchme, powerset.com?

Top notch company. They list TIGR as there ticker on the Nasdaq. Problem is it isn’t there. Even checked the pinksheets. Nothing. Somebody needs to do some proof reading on there new site.

Josh,

I just used the TigerLocic.com ChunkIt! and Chunk-ed TIGR the first page has this info so using Chunkit would have saved you looking at the pinksheets!

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 18, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — TigerLogic Corporation (Nasdaq: TIGR), formerly Raining Data Corporation (Nasdaq: RDTA)

I think the proof is in the speed of finding what you need as fast as possible.

Works for me.

@Brennan, you seem to know a surprising amount about the value proposition of this tool, that is at least comparable to Erik’s noted competitors. Add to that, we never see comments from you here, and you are almost 100% a sure bet for an employee at the company.

You even spell the produst exactly like some from the organization would (camelcaps and all).

Damn it you schills, just stop. We get it, you love your company’s new product.

Great, as if I were having difficulty with google for research (hint: i wasn’t); wrong target market here at TC. Maybe Good Morning America?

I was thinking exactly the same as the lever of comment number 2.

If it is Yawn, then why the hell are you writing about it? Half the net is Yawn, are you going to write about it all?

Agreed 100%, and you should write about crappy products too–otherwise people won’t know how crappy they are…inspired me to write this article, enhanced by the image of Mr. Hankey:

http://timothysykes.com/2008/0.....data-rdta/

As I’ve been using Pick for 20 or so year, I was interested in trying this product (Pick because Raining Data became Tiger Logic), if only out of curiosity - what would a company that was once the leader in databases do with a search engine? As it turns out, they invented a browser plug-in which has some merits, but has nothing to make it essential.