I noticed Blake Elias’s (AKA Blank Alias, Marketing Firm) comment regarding Kallout and I wanted to take a moment to spell out a few of the differences.

ClickSOLVE,
- Can do multiple queries with a single click
- Is a office add-on, so it is not running all the time.
- Our code is generally idle except when you launch a search.
- Can work with multiple cell selections in Word Tables and in Excel
- Can launch queries based on Outlook Contacts (ie just right click on a contact to search or map the contacts info)
- Doesn’t get in your way when you are cutting and pasting text you have selected
- DOES NOT send information except when you do a actual search. Kallout may send queries on any text you select (pre-fetch) as long as its running whether you do a search or not. For many this may be a serious security/privacy concern especially on company computers.
- We do not keep a individual history of your queries for targeted marketing, nor your age, sex , etc.
- We do not keep cookies and unique id’s for your computer

I think that many users will be surprised if they take the time to read Kallout’s End User Licensing Agreement.

Kallout does have cute ‘bubbles’, we don’t.

Kallout is a bit different than us and they take a different approach especially to privacy than we do which is fine. Some users certainly may prefer their approach to searching and I expect both will evolve along different paths.

Tim Noyes
BidSOLVE