Consumers Gain New Ally in ConsumerSearch.com.Business & Lifestyle Editors/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2000 Website Reviews Reviewers, Helps Shoppers Make Intelligent Decisions Consumers gain a new ally this week with the launch of ConsumerSearch.com. The company gathers and analyzes product reviews in order to help consumers make fast, informed purchase decisions. "In essence, we do consumers' shopping homework for them," says ConsumerSearch Co-Founder Carl Hamann. USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. chose ConsumerSearch.com as a "Hot Site" during the pre-launch phase two weeks ago, and a preview version of the site received a glowing write-up in early May from The Scout Report, published by the University of Wisconsin at Madison. ConsumerSearch identifies consensus and reconciles differences in hundreds of product reviews published on the Internet and in print, including websites, magazines, newsletters, and journals. For any category covered by ConsumerSearch.com, consumers can go straight to a "Fast Answers" section for the best products. Shoppers can then click on the "Full Story" for ConsumerSearch's in-depth analysis, or "All Reviews" for a ranking of all the reviews and links to Web-accessible articles. The site also offers links to retailers, making purchasing easy. The company plans to cover 800 product and service categories. The seeds for ConsumerSearch were planted several years ago when Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Derek Drew was in the market for a desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, system. "I realized I could not make an intelligent purchase of a system without stitching together findings from several different computer magazines," says Drew, "I needed a resource that could tie together what was in these publications, something quick and reliable." ConsumerSearch.com is the result of that experience. "The last thing the Web needs is another reviewer re·view·er n. One who reviews, especially one who writes critical reviews, as for a newspaper or magazine. reviewer Noun a person who writes reviews of books, films, etc. Noun 1. ," says Drew. "What consumers need is for somebody to sort through all this material and make sense of it so they can get the information they need quickly." ConsumerSearch.com offers both inbound in·bound 1 adj. Bound inward; incoming: inbound commuter traffic. Adj. 1. inbound and outbound syndication opportunities. Worldweb.net of Alexandria, VA, provided the back-end design of the site as well as the underlying XML-based technology. Site design is by Gesso ges·so n. pl. ges·soes 1. A preparation of plaster of Paris and glue used as a base for low relief or as a surface for painting. 2. A surface of gesso. Digital LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . |
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