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iFinger is a company that provides software dictionaries, thesauruses, and other reference material for personal home and corporate computer users. iFinger is a search engine which automatically attaches itself to the active window and gives one immediate access, both on and off-line.

When the iFinger product is active (not in sleep mode), one moves a cursor over a word on-line, or double-clicks on a word or text in any Windows-based environment, the iFinger engine accesses and returns the information immediately in a drop-down window.

Ifinger Limited was established by Norwegian Publishers Gyldendahl and Aschehougs publishing houses in 2000. Ifinger has over 300,000 corporate users worldwide, and over 2,5 million single users. The company is registered in London. Operational activities are carried out by iFinger Ltd (NUF) Norway.

The software operates exclusively on Windows. They offer 70 works from the following publishers:

• Bloomsbury
• Brockhaus
• Cappelen
• Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH
• Espasa Calpe
• Hachette Multimedia
• Merriam-Webster
• Oxford university press
• Uitgeverij Het Spectrum
• Vega Forlag
• WSOY
• Zanichelli

One of its components of its software is that its Search engine function automatically includes Wikipedia.

External sites

• http://www.ifinger.com/ Home page of iFinger.