Community Connect Selects Eurekster to Power Community Search for Its Ethnically Diverse Audiences; Ethnocentric Search Mirrors Culturally Oriented Community Interests.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Eurekster, Inc., a pioneer in community-powered, social search and monetization Monetization The securitization of the gross revenues of a contract. for Web publishers, today announced that Community Connect, the leader in online community destinations for US ethnic groups, will integrate Eurekster's SearchPublisher(TM) as the social search solution for visitors to its Community Connect sites: AsianAvenue.com, BlackPlanet.com and MiGente.com. E[acute accent acute accent n. A mark (´) indicating: a. that a vowel is close or tense, as é in French été. b. that a vowel or syllable has a high or rising pitch, as in Chinese or Ancient Greek. c. ]"Eurekster's community search platform provides a search experience that builds upon the diversity of each of our 16 million community members, enabling them to benefit from each other's interests through search," said Court Cunningham, COO of Community Connect. "As our community members have specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. interests, the ability to explore, find and share more relevant results dynamically will be of great interest to our members." E[acute accent]Community Connect creates and maintains online communities for US ethnic audiences. The publisher's proprietary technology provides members with the tools that enable them to form and engage in culturally-oriented communities, express themselves and meet new friends. Their sites offer more than content, members can take advantage of instant communication and networking opportunities, resulting in a highly personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. and meaningful community experience. Each one of their Web sites provides free personal pages, email access, discussion forums, news, chat, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , games, promotions and online events. E[acute accent]The sites are AsianAvenue.com, BlackPlanet.com and MiGente.com. E[acute accent]--AsianAvenue.com was launched on July 21, 1997. Since then, the site has received numerous accolades. Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. It was created and launched by Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV guide. named AsianAvenue.com one of the "Top 100 Sites in 2000", calling it the "Top Asian-American Network" on the Web. AsianAvenue.com appeals to all Asian Americans This page is a list of Asian Americans. Politics
E[acute accent]--BlackPlanet.com, launched on September 1, 1999, has been heralded as the number one online destination for African Americans African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. of all backgrounds. Within its first year, BlackPlanet.com experienced exponential growth Extremely fast growth. On a chart, the line curves up rather than being straight. Contrast with linear. , hitting the one million member mark. The site continues to expand at the rate of over 8,000 members daily. In April, 2000, Media Metrix named BlackPlanet.com as the eighth stickiest site on the Internet. (Ebay was rated seventh stickiest.) E[acute accent]--MiGente.com, launched on October 2, 2000, targets second and third generation Latinos, who either are bilingual or English-dominant. The 2000 US Census reports that approximately one in eight people in the US are of Latino origin. With the success of AsianAvenue.com and BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com is positioned for a brilliant future. E[acute accent]"While Eurekster's community search platform and services were built to provide the Web's vertically oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. and community Web publishers with unique and specialized value as well as high-performance revenue opportunities, our platform was also designed specifically to serve sites that are focused on social interaction like Community Connect," said Steven E. Marder, 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 Eurekster, Inc. "As Community Connect has created a place for their members to connect and share information and experiences, our platform leverages this passion and connectivity to provide these highly specialized communities with a social search experience automatically and dynamically customized by and for their users." E[acute accent]How Eurekster SearchPublisher Works E[acute accent]Leveraging extensive intellectual property and years of product development, Eurekster SearchPublisher provides contextual refinement of search queries originating from publisher websites, and improves the relevancy of results through continuous and automatic behavioral analysis of the search results that users click on and actually find useful. Users participate passively and anonymously, and are not required to provide a login Signing in and gaining access to a network server, Web server or other computer system. The process (the noun) is a "login" or "logon," while the act of doing it (the verb) is to "log in" or to "log on. or personal preferences, tag bookmarks, invite their friends to participate, or perform any tasks other than use the publisher's site or toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the and search from it. E[acute accent]Eurekster SearchPublisher makes all the connections and does all the work. It refines the search queries and re-ranks results drawn from general search indexes such as web, site, news, image and shopping to present information that meets the demonstrated interest of the user and other like-minded users of the publisher's website. In addition to providing tailored search results for specific queries, Eurekster SearchPublisher provides a "What's Hot" BuzzCloud feature that automatically shares the most popular and recommended searches for a site's users. Eurekster SearchPublisher also has an optional branded toolbar that publishers can use to extend their site experience and revenue-generating search offering to other destinations their users visit on the Web. E[acute accent]About Community Connect Inc. E[acute accent]Community Connect, the leader in online community destinations for U.S. ethnic groups and the 18th largest U.S. web property, measured in page views. With more than 16 million registered members across our three sites -- AsianAvenue.com, BlackPlanet.com and MiGente.com -- and more than eight years of experience in building online destinations for U.S. ethnic groups, Community Connect is the definitive source for reaching these audiences. Our members return to our sites every day in order to interact with people of similar backgrounds and interests, to establish meaningful relationships, to find jobs and to read about the latest news in politics, culture, music, entertainment. To find out more about Community Connect, go to www.communityconnect.com. E[acute accent]About Eurekster, Inc. E[acute accent]Eurekster, Inc. is a leader in community search technologies that harness the knowledge and behavior of online communities to increase search relevance and value for site visitors, site publishers and advertisers. Eurekster SwickiBuilder and Eurekster SearchPublisher leverage the company's patented technology and patent-pending processes that link search algorithms In computer science, a search algorithm, broadly speaking, is an algorithm that takes a problem as input and returns a solution to the problem, usually after evaluating a number of possible solutions. to social networks and communities of interest. Eurekster SwickiBuilder gives small or individual site publishers the ability to create their own search engines, while Eurekster SearchPublisher is an enterprise-level platform for delivering a highly customized, branded search feature on large websites. Eurekster, Inc. is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] (www.eurekster.com). |
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