Amazon.com Books is ranked top bookstore on Internet; makes Top Ten list of all Web sites.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 1995--Amazon.com Books, a virtual bookstore offering more than 1 million titles, has broken into one of the most prestigious hot lists in 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 community. Point Communications, an independent watchdog that rates Internet sites, recently ranked Amazon.com (Amazon.com, Seattle, WA, www.amazon.com) The largest online shopping site and one of the most widely known e-commerce sites on the Web. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995, it had 11 employees by year's end. Within four years, it had more than 1,600 employees and four million customers. Books as the number one book-related site on the Web, and the sixth best site overall out of the estimated 500,000 sites inhabiting cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. . The Point survey, updated weekly, rates all World Wide Web sites by content, presentation, and experience. With more than 6,000 new pages coming on-line every week, making The Point's Top Ten list is no small feat. The Amazon.com Books home page scored 48 out of 50 possible points in the content category, making its sixth overall on The Point's Top Ten Content list, immediately behind such Internet giants as Lycos (Lycos, Inc., Waltham, MA, www.lycos.com) One of the major Web search and content sites on the Web. In 2000, Lycos and Terra Networks, S.A., the leading provider of content and Internet access to the Spanish and Portuguese markets, merged to become Terra Lycos. , Yahoo, and Pathfinder pathfinder /path·find·er/ (path´find?er) 1. an instrument for locating urethral strictures. 2. a dental instrument for tracing the course of root canals. path·find·er n. . When analyzing content of a new Web site, The Point looks at the depth, breadth, and thoroughness of the home-page's information, taking into consideration the site's accuracy and completeness. In its review of Amazon.com, The Point highlighted the virtual bookstore's innovative Eyes & Editors free personal notification service, and described Amazon.com's speedy keyword searches as "most impressive." In addition to high marks on The Point, Amazon.com Books, in operation since September, has received accolades on Yahoo's "What's Cool List" and Netscape's "What New List." In its first month of operation, Amazon.com filled book orders from all 50 states and 45 countries. Amazon.com operates from headquarters in Seattle. The company maintains a staff of programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists , editors, executives, and all-around book lovers. Amazon.com's URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. is http://www.amazon.com/. Point Communications and The Point Top Ten list are at http://www.pointcom.com/. CONTACT: WHaM Communications Pete Pedersen, 206/223-1606 |
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