Become.com Launches ''News Search'' for Shoppers; Provides Users With Breaking News Articles on Product Information, Safety and Services of Interest.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 "News Search," a feature designed to provide searchers with breaking news articles relevant to their shopping needs. Become.com's News Search provides information on new product offerings, safety warnings, product recalls, and a wide range of shopping-related content. The news search is conducted automatically every time you enter a term into the research box. Links to relevant news articles are displayed directly below the search box in response to a search conducted on Become.com. Links to news articles are displayed only when articles of interest to shoppers are available. "Become.com's News Search is the latest component of our service designed to help people make ideal buying decisions. By providing exceptionally relevant and up-to-date information combined with our index of more than 3 billion pages of shopping related content, we are helping people make more confident, better-informed purchases," said Michael Yang Michael Yang (Korean: 양민정, Hanja: 梁民正, born August 31 1961) is a Korean-American Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, California. , founder, President and 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. . "Not only do we want to help consumers make informed decisions, we also want to protect them. Product recalls happen daily and the News Search service is designed to build consumer awareness." Become.com's News Search technology 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. hundreds of top U.S. news sources and uses sophisticated techniques to identify articles of interest to shoppers. News sources are scanned automatically every 10 minutes to update people with the most recent information available. 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 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 The relationship that a person has to the blood relatives of a spouse by virtue of the marriage. The doctrine of affinity developed from a Maxim of Canon Law that a Husband and Wife were made one by their marriage. There are three types of affinity. Index Ranking) technology to deliver targeted and relevant information for shopping searches. |
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