Clearforest Gnosis is a valuable firefox extension which automatically identify the people, companies, organizations, geographies and products on the web page you are viewing.
You can process the page in one of two ways:
a) Click the Gnosis button to process the entire page,
b) select specific text and click the button or right click to “ClearForest Gnosis”.
The extension will highlight the word if any information is available and you just have to move the mouse on the highlighted word see the related information as a tool tip.
Using the built-in navigation sidebar you can gain immediate understanding of the page’s contents. Use Gnosis on the news, business documents, or blogs to get an immediate birds-eye view of content hidden within unstructured text.
You can download the extension from here.
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Posted on February 14, 2007
Just a brief note to let you know that ClearForest has published a new and improved version of Gnosis. While we’re waiting for the lengthy Mozilla approval process to complete the extension is hosted at http://gnosis.clearforest.com
Cleaner UI and automated extraction for the top dozen or so news sites on the web. Better “launch” options to take you to topix.net and other locations.
A great starting point is a news site like CNN, the International Herald Tribune or the Wall Street Journal. For these and about a dozen other sites Gnosis will do its work in the background with no user intervention. Another great place to play is Wikipedia - the automated entity identification adds a whole new level of navigational possibilities.