Award-Winning Scientific Search Engine, Scirus, and FAST Deliver Improved Search Experience for Researchers.Business/Technology Editors AMSTERDAM, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2002 Elsevier Science, the leading international publisher of scientific information, announced in conjunction with Fast Search & Transfer ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and (FAST), a leading developer of search and real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. filtering technologies, a new release of Scirus, the Web search engine See Web search engines. dedicated to science. The new version improves the user experience with more subject-specific content and features like expanded information types, dynamic teasers which highlight the search terms within the search result list, and improved relevance ranking. "As we continue to examine ways to improve the search service for scientists, we have executed a study amongst the target audience to find out what they find most important for a dedicated science search engine," says Femke Markus, Product Manager of Scirus, "I am therefore very happy to announce that this new release brings us improved searching for scientists, based on their feedback." The index now contains over 107 million science specific pages, with new full-text additions like NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. reports, CogPrints pre- and postprints, and preprints from the Chemistry and Mathematics Preprint pre·print n. Something printed and often distributed in partial or preliminary form in advance of official publication: a preprint of a scientific article. tr.v. Servers. Scirus now offers over 17 million proprietary records that cannot be found using generic search engines. The new version of Scirus contains significant enhancements aimed at assisting users with finding the most relevant results. These features have been developed using the latest search technology provided by FAST. FAST has further improved the ranking and relevance of the results by implementing "intelligent query rewrites," which automatically attempts to understand the intention of the user and enables more intelligent searching by rewriting re·write v. re·wrote , re·writ·ten , re·writ·ing, re·writes v.tr. 1. To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise. 2. the queries. Query transformations performed on the searchers' behalf include the addition of quotes around common phrases that are detected from the Scirus phrase dictionary and the removal of non-essential search words in the query such as "what is" and "where can I find information about." Searchers may also run their queries without re-writing if they wish. Other improvements that assist the searcher in finding more relevant results include improved ranking technology and dynamic teasers that highlight the search keyword in context (software, search) keyword in context - (KWIC) An automatic search method that creates indexes of document text or titles. Each keyword is stored in the resulting index along with some surrounding text, usually the word or phrase that precedes or follows the keyword in the text or title. on the result page. "FAST is pleased to work with Elsevier Science to help provide their users with the most comprehensive scientific information portal online," said Dr. John M. Lervik, chief executive officer of FAST. "We are committed to helping Scirus users find the information they desire, and look forward to future collaborations that will continue to provide the best search experience possible." More refined searching will be facilitated by the addition of new the Information Types "Company Homepages" and "Preprints." This will allow the searcher to quickly find science-related company and product information, as well as papers that are available before the peer-review process has been completed. As part of this new release, Scirus now includes a news feed with the latest science headlines provided by the Lexis Lexis® An online legal information service that provides the full text of opinions and statutes in electronic format. Subscribers use their personal computers to search the Lexis database for relevant cases. They may download or print the legal information they retrieve. Nexis Web Publisher News Database. This service provides the Scirus user with access to rich, reliable news that is continuously updated. It provides access to prominent newspapers, trade journals, reference directories, legal and legislative sources, newswires and transcripts from over 2,700 sources around the world. About Scirus Scirus is the most comprehensive science specific search engine available on the Internet. Driven by the latest in search engine technology, it covers more than 100 million science-related pages and can pinpoint precise scientific information that other search engines can not reach, including pdf files See PDF. and peer-reviewed articles. It was launched in April 2001 by Elsevier Science (www.elsevier.com), the world's largest scientific, technical and medical information provider, and is part of the ScienceDirect(R) family of products. About FAST Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at some of the world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems. FAST's flexible and scalable integrated technology platform spans both Internet and enterprise customers, and elevates search to unprecedented levels. FAST closes the gap between information and action, connecting people to the relevant information they seek regardless of medium, in turn driving revenue and reducing total cost of ownership by effectively leveraging IT infrastructure for our clients and world-class partners. FAST search technology is currently deployed by a wide range of global customers and partners including AT&T, BroadVision, Freeserve, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , InfoSpace, Reed Elsevier (Scirus.com), Reuters, T-Online, Terra Lycos, and Tiscali. FAST has operations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe (Norway, Germany, UK), and Japan, and is publicly traded under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors `FAST' on the Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange An exchange founded in 1819 and trading stocks, bonds, and stock options that is considered the options market of Norway. . Please visit www.fastsearch.com for more information, or see FAST in action at our technology showcase www.alltheweb.com. |
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