Introduction

Web Finalist™ is a real-time web search tool that helps online researchers scan collections of web pages for specific information.

What do you do when you need to locate the most current, specific information from a group of pre-selected web pages?

Although traditional search engines are fast, they are little help.

• They can search the whole Web. They can search within domains. But they cannot search within custom collections of web pages.
• They crawl less than 1 percent of the known Web and miss a lot of highly relevant business-critical information in the Deep Web. "The 'deep Web' is the great lode of databases, flight schedules, library catalogs, classified ads, patent filings, genetic research data and another 90-odd terabytes of data that never find their way onto a typical search results page." (In Search of the deep Web, Alex Wright, March 9, 2004)
• They cannot guarantee that search results, based on the indexed information, are up-to-date.

Before now, there was no other way to determine which page had value without viewing it manually. All you could do was wade through your list, viewing each page, one at a time, just to determine if the web page had the information you needed. It was boring, laborious, and time-consuming.

Good news! Web Finalist™ automates this process. With the power of your computer and your high speed Internet connection, Web Finalist™ will scan the web pages in your collection much faster and accurately than you can manually. Just load your collection and specify the keywords (like in any other search engine), and the program will compile a final list of web pages relevant to your search.

Web Finalist™ will save time for people involved in online research:

• Business and academic researchers
• Journalists
• Students