Atomz.com Search Supports Fourteen Languages; Application Service Provider for Web Sites Adds Free International Dictionaries for More Accurate Searches.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1999-- Atomz.com (www.atomz.com), the leading Application Service Provider for Web sites, announced that the Atomz.com Search service now offers sophisticated word-matching in 14 different languages. In addition to English, Atomz.com Search now supplies dictionaries for Brazilian Portuguese, Czechoslovakian, Danish, Dutch, European Portuguese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Slovak and Swedish, thus providing the most comprehensive and accurate site navigation service available on the Internet. "Atomz.com Search has provided the capabilities we needed to catapult our Internet news service into a leading site for online newspapers worldwide," said Roland Specker, Editor of NZZ NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung (New Zurich Times; Zurich, Switzerland) Online (http://www.nzz.ch), the online edition of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, a major newspaper in Switzerland with an international reputation. Atomz.com serves small business, corporate, and individual Web developer customers. Atomz.com Search, the company's initial service, allows Web site owners to add search capability to their sites in minutes for free, and with complete control over look and feel. No hardware or software needs to be installed. Registered members can add multilingual support with a few clicks. On the Atomz.com Web site, a member can go to the Member Center, and then click on the Word, Languages and Character Sets control. This allows the member to choose a language on which to search. The member's Web site is then re-indexed to reflect the support of the new dictionary chosen. These language features work not only with 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. , but also with the Portable Document Format (file format) Portable Document Format - (PDF) The native file format for Adobe Systems' Acrobat. PDF is the file format for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. (PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. ) by Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ). Other existing customers are also using the international dictionaries, such as the Web site for the Norwegian Public Administration Network Project. "Since we have utilized the Atomz.com Search service to support Norwegian, our site search is much more effective and accurate," said Haakon Halvorsen of the Norwegian Government Administrative Services (http://forvaltningsnett.dep.no/). This Web project is an ongoing cooperation between the municipal sector and central government in the field of Information Technology. "People expect a search engine to find 'purchasing' even when they search for 'purchase,'" said Steve Kusmer, 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. of Atomz.com. "That requires a language-specific dictionary, which we now have in 14 languages. For instance, the Atomz.com Search engine correctly finds all forms and tenses of a verb such as 'viajar' (to travel) which can have more than 100 forms in the Spanish language." "Atomz.com is very user-friendly," said Daniela Cerrato, President, ThinkCyber, creator of the RAI rai n. A form of popular Algerian music combining traditional Arabic vocal styles with various elements of popular Western music and featuring outspoken, often controversial lyrics. Television US Network Web site (http://www.raicorp.net/), which also utilizes the Atomz.com Search foreign language feature. "I especially enjoyed the 'plug-and-go' approach of Atomz.com Search." RAI Television is the US Web site for one of the biggest Italian networks that provides information about Italian programming in the US. Atomz.com Search is the premiere site search service used by customers such as Lycos' Webmonkey site; LifeScan, a Johnson & Johnson company; O'Reilly & Associates, a publisher of technology content; Silicon Valley Community Ventures, a non-profit organization; and magazine sites including Texas Monthly Magazine. Thousands are using the service since it was introduced in late June, making Atomz.com Search one of the fastest-growing hosted applications for Web sites. About Atomz.com Atomz.com, founded by former Macromedia (NASDAQ:MACR MACR Macromedia (stock symbol) MACR Missing Air Crew Report MACR Major Accident Control Regulations (UK) MACR Monthly Arrest and Citation Register MACR Modified And Combinable REMIC ) executives, is an Application Service Provider that delivers powerful capabilities for Web sites. Its initial service, Atomz.com Search, features in-context display of search results, with no software to install and no banner advertising Banner Advertising A common form of advertising on the internet. The banner is an advertisement of 460x68 pixels, usually placed at the top of the page Notes: For an example, just look at the top of a page on almost any popular web site. required. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , Atomz.com is based in San Francisco and recently announced securing $4 million in venture capital funding. For more information, visit the company Web site at http://www.atomz.com. Atomz.com, Atomz and Atomz.com Search are trademarks of Avivo Corporation. |
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