From Networkworld.COM:

Startup called Webaroo touts ‘Web on a hard drive’

Search the Web from your laptop or handheld — without an Internet connection of any kind?
 
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.
 
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