Autonomy Connects XOOM.com Home Page Builders and Visitors to Other Members With Similar Interests and Relevant Sites.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1999--Autonomy, Inc. today announced that XOOM XOOM Extraction of Object Oriented Software Metrics .com, Inc. (Nasdaq:XMCM), a leading direct e-commerce company, is using Autonomy's Content Server(TM) to provide XOOM.com's home page builders and their visitors with the ability to locate other members with similar interests -- no matter how specific or diverse. In addition, Autonomy's software automatically provides the XOOM.com community with real-time hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the links to other Web sites related to their interests. Autonomy's technology has been incorporated into the XOOMBar, a search and navigation tool launched recently for XOOM.com home page builders. "XOOM.com has done a great job of creating a community that allows large numbers of people to develop personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. web sites," said Autonomy 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. Mike Lynch. "With more than 1.5 million home page builders, XOOM.com faced the formidable challenge of offering a truly scalable means for XOOM.com members and visitors to connect with each other. Autonomy's technology automates this process and make it easier for XOOM.com members to find personal sites and people with specific interests." At the heart of Autonomy's advanced pattern recognition technology is its ability to read and analyze the ideas in any piece of text. When a XOOM.com member explores other members' web pages to find people who share his or her interests, Autonomy's software understands the concepts underlying those interests. This unique understanding enables the software to automatically suggest other web pages created by like-minded owners, creating a dynamically linked community of relevant and personalized web sites. Autonomy and XOOM.com are actively working on other ways to facilitate community connections, including using these links to build chat rooms and discussions. "Autonomy's technology helps our members zero in on other people with similar interests by creating automatic hyperlinks between related personal web pages," said Bob Ellis, publisher, XOOM.com. "It allows us to create and manage a much more intuitive web community structure. For example, a XOOM.com member who enjoys Himalayan summit climbing can find other members who share this interest and then go one step farther and find sites about climbing gear." About Autonomy Autonomy (www.autonomy.com) develops software that automatically organizes large, unstructured volumes of information into personally relevant data to help corporate intranets and commercial websites serve the changing needs and interests of users. Autonomy's products for knowledge management and new media publishing save time, labor and money by automatically and precisely targeting, categorizing, linking, personalizing and searching large volumes of unstructured information. The intelligent pattern recognition technology that fuels Autonomy's software was originally developed by Autonomy's sister company, Neurodynamics, for use in intelligence and defense applications. That technology is at the heart of the British police force's Holmes2 system, named after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. Holmes2 helps the police solve crimes by matching fingerprints or by finding similarities and connections in disparate crime witness statements or police reports. The same technology is now being used to find connections in commercial data. Autonomy was founded in 1996 and has offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Boston, New York Boston is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 7,897 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Boston, Massachusetts. The Town of Boston is an interior town of the county and one of the county's "Southtowns. , Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, England. Autonomy customers include News Corp., MacMillan Publishing, Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , Barclays Bank, British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. , Shell International, Semi-Tech, Volvo, Clorox, British Aerospace British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft and defence systems manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. History The company was formed as a statutory corporation on April 29, 1977 as a result the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act. , Proctor & Gamble, Reuters, Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. , SF Gate, The Royal Mail and Unilever. On July 10, 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ See European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. exchange. The company's current valuation is over $300 million dollars. |
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