CDnow Sets New Search Standard for Online Music Shoppers; Verity's New Search Technology Helps You Find Even the Artists with the Most Challenging Names at CDnow.SUNNYVALE, Calif. & JENKINTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 1998--Is it Madona, Maddona or Madonna? It's okay if you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. because CDnow will find the artist, regardless of the spelling, with a new search feature that no other online music retailer currently offers. CDnow (NASDQ:CDNW), the Internet's number one music store, now has one of the most advanced search capabilities available on the Internet -- Verity, Inc.'s K2 search technology. Test your spelling skills by visiting other online music stores, then visit CDnow (cdnow.com) and discover the music you want, even if you can't spell it. "When you really want something, you'll find it at CDnow, even if you can't spell it. Can't find Alanis Morisette at other music stores? CDnow is the only online music store that will find you Alanis Morissette. If you're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. Metalica or the Greatful Dead, only CDnow will find Metallica and the Grateful Dead," said Jason Olim, CDnow 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. . "With CDnow's growing and demandingbusiness, and hundreds of thousands of searches a day, we chose Verity K2 technology because it can fulfill our needs for accuracy and future growth." "CDnow is one of a handful of sites comprising the top tier of e-commerce," said Ronald Weissman, Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development for Verity. "As a top-tier e-commerce site, CDnow's requirements for accuracy, performance and scalability are among the toughest in the industry - an ideal application for Verity's K2 technology. Verity's K2 Toolkit is designed to meet CDnow's growing catalog and customer base, providing precision without sacrificing performance." CDnow eliminated what was previously the most difficult aspect of shopping for music online: trying to find an album when you don't know how to spell the artist's name. CDnow chose K2 by Verity, Inc. (NASDQ:VRTY), a leading provider of knowledge retrieval solutions for the enterprise and Internet, for its new search software because of its precision, power and scalability. CDnow is constantly expanding its editorial content and product list, and the K2 software readily incorporates this new data into its search capabilities. Additionally, with the number of visitors to CDnow growing every day, the new and improved search capabilities of Verity's K2 help CDnow service its customers faster and more effectively. About Verity and Verity's K2 Toolkit Verity is a leading provider of enterprise knowledge retrieval solutions for corporate intranets, online publishers and OEMs and ISVs. Verity's product suite enables organizations to turn corporate intranets into a powerful knowledge base, making business information accessible and reusable across the enterprise. Verity's leadership has been recognized by numerous organizations, most recently by Delphi Consulting, which gave Verity the Market Recognition Award based on a survey of 600 corporate users. Verity's K2 Toolkit is a search architecture designed for clustered symmetric processing, using a parallel software architecture of concurrent search brokers and search servers. Using Verity's K2 Toolkit, developers gain the flexibility to support a variety of applications, including single large document repositories, high-performance precision fault-tolerant systems Fault-tolerant systems Systems, predominantly computing and computer-based systems, which tolerate undesired changes in their internal structure or external environment. and solutions where distributed data from Web servers, file servers and other content archives is coordinated through a centralized index management design. K2's precision is obtained through the proven Verity query language A generalized language that allows a user to select records from a database. It uses a command language, menu-driven method or a query by example (QBE) format for expressing the matching condition. . Scalability of additional users, increased content and system performance is delivered by adding additional K2 servers, K2 brokers, processors, hardware nodes and disk access. Indexes are distributed evenly across the architecture for balanced throughput and the elimination of any single point of failure. Verity's comprehensive and integrated product family enables enterprise-wide document indexing, classification, search and retrieval, personalized information dissemination, and hybrid online and CD publishing CD Publishing is a term used to describe the use of CD duplication systems to create a large number of unique discs. For instance, storing a unique serial number on each copy of a software application disc would be considered CD publishing. - all from the same underlying Verity collection. Verity's KeyView products also enable viewing of source documents stored in more than 200 formats. Verity's products are used by more than 1,000 corporations, government agencies, on-line service providers, Internet publishers and software developers worldwide. Verity partners include Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. , AT&T, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , Cisco, Compaq, Dow Jones, Ernst & Young, Financial Times, NewsEDGE Corporation, Informix, Lotus, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Netscape Communications, SAP, SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. , Siemens, Nixdorf, Sybase, Tandem and Time Warner's Pathfinder. About CDNow CDnow, Inc. (cdnow.com) is the Internet's number one music store. CDnow offers more than 250,000 music related items - five times the size of the average music store. Founded in 1994 by twin brothers Jason and Matthew Olim, CDnow is building a better music store through intelligent album recommendations, custom CDs, music samples, and a vast library of reviews, features from top music writers and exclusive editorial content from Rolling Stone Network, MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. / VH1 and College Music Journal “CMJ” redirects here. For other uses, see CMJ (disambiguation). College Music Journal, commonly known as CMJ, is a music events/publishing company most famous for its annual festival in New York City, the CMJ Music Marathon, as well as a (CMJ CMJ Chinese Medical Journal CMJ College Media Journal CMJ College Mathematics Journal CMJ Complete Metal Jacket CMJ Certified Measuring Judge CMJ Chief of Military Justice CMJ Critical Mass Journal ). CDnow is the premier online music store on Yahoo!, Lycos, Lycos-Bertelsmann, Webcrawler, Tripod, Geocities, MTV / VH1, Rolling Stone Network and CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. .com. This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Verity and the expected performance and scalability of its K2 product, as well as integration of its K2 product into customer environments. Other risks relating to Verity and its products are as set forth in its Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and Form 10-Qs as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Verity, the Verity logo and Verity K2 Toolkit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Verity, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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