AltaVista Launches Its Largest Multimedia Index Ever, Adds New Features to Popular News Search.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2003 Delivers More and Higher-Quality Images and Expanded International Coverage, New Options Let Users Further Refine News Searches AltaVista Company, a leading global provider of search services and a majority-owned operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. of CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) , Inc. (Nasdaq:CMGI), has launched an expanded version of its multimedia index, with over 240 million unique media files, including images, video clips A short video presentation. , MP3 and other audio files. In addition, the company has added new search parameters to its popular News search, enabling visitors to better pinpoint articles of interest to them. The enhanced index and new features represent the company's continuing commitment to the advancement of search technology and the delivery of the most comprehensive multimedia and news search capabilities on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . "We have seen increasing interest in multimedia and news search capabilities, and have enhanced our multimedia index to meet this growing demand. Today's announcement represents another milestone in our plan to further integrate multimedia with our core results, and to provide the most robust multimedia and news resources on the Web," said Fred Bullock Frederick Edwin Bullock (born 1885 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England) was an England international footballer whose only match as an England international came against Ireland in 1920. , Chief Marketing Officer of AltaVista Company. "Our expanded multimedia index positions us to go well beyond the traditional boundaries of Web-page search by incorporating richer media options. The new options in our News search further extend our leadership position in this area, as we execute on our long term plan to provide the most comprehensive search experience on the Web." More Multimedia AltaVista's enhanced multimedia index boasts larger images and more .jpeg files as well as expanded worldwide coverage, with access to more international image files. In addition, the company has applied a new proprietary relevance algorithm algorithm (ăl`gərĭth'əm) or algorism (–rĭz'əm) [for Al-Khowarizmi], a clearly defined procedure for obtaining the solution to a general type of problem, often numerical. for delivering even more targeted, relevant results to users' searches. Advanced filtering enhancements enable the company to deliver higher quality images and screen out 'noise' images such as buttons and spacer. gifs used in HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. construction. New Features in News 2.0 AltaVista has enhanced its powerful News 2.0 search to give users even greater functionality when searching news articles. Visitors can now search AltaVista's comprehensive news index specifically for articles with images. They also can limit their search to articles within a specific date range, which is useful not only for in-depth research in the news index, but also for very targeted information needs in a given period of time. These new search parameters enable users to better pinpoint their search for articles from AltaVista's index of over four million articles from 3,000 sources, worldwide. Combining these new features with the existing set of powerful refinement options such as search by date, topic, region or specific source, gives the user even more power and functionality for news searches. About AltaVista Company Internet search pioneer AltaVista Company is a leading global provider of search services and technology. The company continues to advance Internet search with new technologies and features designed to improve the search experience for all users. Built on a foundation of over 57 technology patents, with innovations in multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. and translation support, AltaVista provides integrated search results to give users immediate access to relevant information including Web pages, multimedia files and up-to-the-minute news. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., AltaVista is a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMGI). For more information see http://www.altavista.com. Note to Editors: AltaVista is a registered trademark of AltaVista Company. This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements include without limitation statements that AltaVista's users will want to use the new features of AltaVista's search services. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, the implementation of the new features and services described herein may not be successful or may not generate revenue or other economic benefit for AltaVista. For a discussion of other risks that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from such forward-looking statements, see CMGI, Inc.'s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the most recently ended fiscal quarter. AltaVista undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or occurring after the date of this press release. |
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