Bright Station partners with Moreover.com to enhance WebTop.com.Business Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2000 Bright Station plc (www.brightstation.com), the proposed new name for The Dialog Corporation plc (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :DLG DLG - (DFA-based Lexical analyser Generator) The lexical analyser generator in the Purdue Compiler-Construction Tool Set. , 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 :DIAL) - today announced that WebTop.com, its concept-based search engine provider, is partnering with news feed supplier Moreover.com (http://www.moreover.com) to significantly enhance NewsZone, WebTop.com's free news database. WebTop.com will add Moreover.com's news service and its 1,500 global news sources to NewsZone's existing databases that are searched by WebTop.com and the WebCheck desktop research tool. Webcheck utilizes 'linguistic inference' technologies to make searching easier, by identifying and matching key concepts rather than just key words. It allows users to search the Internet without the need to open browsers, use search engines or type key word searches, delivering comprehensive and finely filtered search results. WebTop.com and Moreover.com will jointly market and distribute NewsZone and share the advertising revenues. It is available to users at the WebTop.com and Moreover.com websites. Additionally, the WebCheck desktop tool is free to download from the WebTop.com site (http://www.webtop.com). John Snyder, 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 WebTop.com, said, "WebCheck is a desktop tool that enables people to search the Web for the concept they require. Moreover.com has a rich supply of content for NewsZone and we are delighted to announce this strategic alliance which will benefit not just our two businesses but anyone looking to find news on the Web in a fast, easy way." Angus Bankes, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , Moreover.com, said, "NewsZone uses WebTop.com's powerful search technology and will benefit from Moreover.com's news feeds from over 1,500 editorial sources. This is a superb synergy of content and delivery." Moreover.com (http://www.moreover.com) is a venture-backed Internet company with offices in San Francisco and London. Established in 1998, Moreover.com is the world's most comprehensive online news aggregation service. Moreover.com's news feeds combine the depth of established databases with the flexibility and efficiency of the Web. With the proprietary software that spiders more than 1,500 editorial sources, Moreover.com provides `webfeeds' of headline links in more than 250 categories. All the webfeeds displayed on Moreover.com's news portal are also available free off the site to webmasters in formats such as JavaScript, e-mail and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. . Bright Station plc (www.brightstation.com) is the proposed new name for The Dialog Corporation. Bright Station's three technology-focused divisions include: Web Solutions (WSD WSD Word Sense Disambiguation (computational linguistics) WSD Web Services on Devices (Information Technology) WSD Water Supplies Department (Hong Kong) ), eCommerce (ECD ECD Early Childhood Development ECD Electron Capture Detector ECD Energy Citations Database ECD Executive Creative Director (advertising) ECD Ethyl Cysteinate Dimer ECD Electron Capture Dissociation ECD Electronic Civil Disobedience ) and the Internet Ventures Division (IVD), an incubator for promising Internet start-ups. Bright Station's assets and brands include, InfoSort(R), Muscat(R), WebTop(R), WebCheck(R), Sparza(R), OfficeShopper(R) and the Smartlogik Knowledge Management business. |
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