Become.com Launches ''Dynamic Suggestions''; Provides Users with Real-Time Recommendations while Searching the Internet.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Become.com Become.com is a product search and comparison shopping start-up company located in Mountain View, CA. It was founded by entrepreneurs Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun who founded mySimon. Become.com was voted the Best of the Web by Forbes Magazine and Business Week during 2005 and 2006. , a search engine that helps people find product reviews and relevant buying information, today announced the launch of "Dynamic Suggestions," a new feature designed to help people create effective search queries. Dynamic Suggestions generate 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. recommendations while users are typing their searches. The suggestions provided to users are based on product-related terms and phrases identified from Become.com's evaluation of over 3 billion web pages. Suggestions include but are not limited to manufacturer names, part numbers, brands, and a wide range of products and services. "Become.com's approach to providing exceptional Dynamic Suggestions is based on a deep technical understanding of shopping-related content on the web," said Yeogirl Yun, founder, chairman and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. . "We have been able to leverage our technology to help consumers in a way not achieved by competitors." Unlike other search engines that provide suggestions based simply on queries entered by other users, Become.com scours scour, scours 1. the chemical and physical cleaning of fleece wool. 2. diarrhea. dietetic scour see dietary diarrhea. peat scour see secondary nutritional copper deficiency. the web for a wide range of both comprehensive and detailed content. Become.com also works to provide suggestions that are particularly valuable to shoppers rather than the less focused suggestions that might appear on general purpose search engines. Dynamic Suggestions can be found below the search box on Become.com's home page. About Become.com Become.com is a search engine for shopping that helps people find product reviews and buying information on millions of products across the web. Founded by Michael Yang Michael Yang (Korean: 양민정, Hanja: 梁民正, born August 31 1961) is a Korean-American Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, California. and Yeogirl Yun, founders of pioneering online comparison shopping site mySimon mySimon is a comparison shopping website founded by Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun in April, 1998 and acquired by CNET Networks in 2000. It was the largest online comparison shopping site in 2000. , Become.com indexes over 3 billion pages of shopping related information and uses proprietary AIR(TM) (Affinity Index Ranking) technology to deliver targeted and relevant information for shopping searches. |
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