A BUSINESS COMPASS, new online web directory, launched.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 1996-- Business Professionals Now Can Skip The Clutter of Irrelevant Web Sites With Guide To High-Value Business Information On The Internet Every serious Web surfer knows the nightmare: Ask one of the popular Web search engines A Web site that maintains an index and short summaries of billions of pages on the Web, Google being the world's largest. Most search engine sites are free and paid for by advertising banners, while others charge for the service. or directories -- such as Alta Vista See AltaVista. (World-Wide Web) Alta Vista - A World-Wide Web site provided by Digital which features a very fast Web and Usenet search engine. As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. or Yahoo -- for directions to a site for business information, and the resulting deluge Deluge (dĕl`y  j), in the Bible, the overwhelming flood that covered the earth and destroyed every living thing except the family of Noah and the creatures in his ark. of home pages can be overwhelming. And often full of irrelevant and unproductive Web sites that do not offer the targeted, substantive business information desired. Business online users, your time-wasting frustrations are over. A BUSINESS COMPASS (http://www.abcompass.com) -- a powerful, sophisticated Internet directory and analysis service that pre-screens and profiles leading Web-based sources of business information and research -- was unveiled this week by the recently formed A Business Compass LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . A BUSINESS COMPASS currently is a free service available to any Web user, but will be transformed into a subscription-based or advertising-supported service in early 1997, A Business Compass LLC President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Chris Fujiwara said. "The Web is now recognized as a valuable source of business research information, but there has been no company devoted to finding and organizing that information to make it readily accessible for business users. Until now, finding the value among the chaos of unproductive Web sites has been a challenge," said Fujiwara. "We've created a service that combines the best of a Web search engine See Web search engines. with the old-fashioned virtues of editorial judgment and intuitive analysis." A BUSINESS COMPASS contains listings, profiles, and links to 1,000 leading Web business information services See Information Systems. from around the world, with about 100 new sites added weekly. Fujiwara said the directory service is particularly helpful for those hunting on the Web for rich sources of market research, industry data, business and company news, analysis, and competitive intelligence. "We've taken the model for how print information is organized and are applying it to the Web," Fujiwara said. "For serious Web users, A BUSINESS COMPASS should the first stop on any Web information quest." A BUSINESS COMPASS editors identify and profile Web information services relevant to business needs. Each profile contains an Industry Classification, a description of the site's Business Use, and a Content Description. Each profile also contains Special Features descriptions, which are summaries of special services offered by the site, with links to specific pages described; and Valuable Pages descriptions, which are summaries of key information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. within the site, with direct links to those pages. The Valuable Pages feature allows A BUSINESS COMPASS user to bypass a site's opening pages to go directly to the targeted pages. For example, A BUSINESS COMPASS synopsis A summary; a brief statement, less than the whole. A synopsis is a condensation of something—for example, a synopsis of a trial record. of an electronic source of Australian economic information contains a Valuable Page GO link direct to trade statistics posted by the Australian government agency but buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. deep in the large site. "The stay-up-all-night crowd may like endless Web crawling, but who in business has the time?" says Fujiwara. "A BUSINESS COMPASS lets business professionals bypass all the clutter." All the reviewed sites are indexed and may be searched by Subject, Industry, Geography, and Language categories, or via keywords. A BUSINESS COMPASS incorporates advanced spidering technology, ensuring that the information presented at www.abcompass.com is constantly up-to-date. Webmasters at business information sites and services may request inclusion on A BUSINESS COMPASS via e-mail to info@abcompass.com. A Business Compass LLC was launched earlier this year by CEO Fujiwara, formerly an information and systems specialist at H.W. Wilson Co.; Steve Arnold
NOTE TO EDITORS: The e-mail addresses See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address in this release should contain an "at" symbol before "abcompass.com". It is possible this symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: A Business Compass LLC Erik Arnold, 212/980-7661 erik@abcompass.com |
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