Corbis and AltaVista Launch the World's Largest Consumer Online Picture Search.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 1998--Corbis, the leading provider of photography and fine art using Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the technologies (www.corbis.com), today announced it has joined forces with AltaVista (AltaVista Company, Palo Alto, CA, www.altavista.com) The first search engine to index every word on a page and provide a retrieval system to extract relevant information. Developed by Digital's Research Labs in Palo Alto in 1995, the AltaVista search engine is available in more than 25 , one of the world's premier providers of Internet services, to bring consumers the world's largest and most comprehensive online picture search featuring Corbis imagery. For the first time, online consumers can conduct an interactive picture search of the world-famous Corbis Collection. The Corbis Picture Experience (accessible from www.altavista.digital.com and www.corbis.com) allows users to search nearly 500,000 high-quality Corbis images and send them as online greetings -- Corbis Cards -- anywhere in the world. This service is the first in a series of online utilities -- including downloads, and print and purchase options -- that will allow customers to fully interact with Corbis pictures. "Through our partnership with AltaVista, Corbis continues to pioneer the way people search for and interact with pictures online," said David Rheins, vice president of Corbis Productions. "This agreement signals the advent of visual communication via the Internet in a way that was not possible before." The Corbis Picture Experience also allows users to search for and view some of the world's most popular and recognizable images from the Corbis Collection, including Albert Einstein Ein·stein , Albert 1879-1955. German-born American theoretical physicist whose special and general theories of relativity revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed a theoretical base for the exploitation of atomic energy. sticking his tongue out, the Hindenburg explosion and Leonardo di Vinci's "Mona Lisa Mona Lisa La Gioconda, da Vinci’s enchanting portrait. [Ital. Art: Wallechinsky, 190] See : Beauty, Lasting Mona Lisa enigmatic smile beguiles and bewilders. [Ital. ." How It Works From the AltaVista home page, the Corbis Picture Experience is accessible by clicking on "Create a Card" located in the "Services" section. Search results from the Corbis Collection are presented as small images with a brief description and the option to send a Corbis Card. By clicking on the image itself, users go to the home page of the image, where they can see the full caption and information, access Corbis' online print and poster shop, go to the Corbis Card Gallery or view other Corbis offerings. Corbis views all images as valuable assets worthy of the highest intellectual property right protection available. Through its ongoing strategic alliance with Digimarc Corporation -- a leading digital watermarking Digital watermarking is a technique which allows an individual to add hidden copyright notices or other verification messages to digital audio, video, or image signals and documents. company -- Corbis employs Digimarc image identification and tracking technology to effectively manage intellectual property rights in the Corbis Picture Experience. About Corbis Corbis is a privately-owned company that provides visual content and services to creative professionals and image consumers through innovative digital technologies. Through the combination of world-class photographic images and state-of-the-art technologies, Corbis creates new and compelling ways for its customers to search for, shop for and experience images. The Corbis Collection -- 23 million images, with more than 1.3 million available online -- contains the world's most significant photography from more than 1,000 creative sources, including Ansel Adams, Bettmann, UPI UPI abbr. United Press International and the National Gallery in London. Corbis Images (www.corbisimages.com) -- Corbis' image licensing division targeting creative professionals -- continues to deliver on its strategy to provide customers with one, integrated product spectrum through its acquisition of Digital Stock and Westlight, two leading providers of commercial photography worldwide, and most recently Outline, the world's leading provider of celebrity portraiture portraiture, the art of representing the physical or psychological likeness of a real or imaginary individual. The principal portrait media are painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. From earliest times the portrait has been considered a means to immortality. . Corbis is based in Seattle, with offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , London, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . For more information about Corbis and its products and services, call 800/260-0444, 425/641-4505, fax 425/ 746-1618, or visit its Web site at http://www.corbis.com/. About AltaVista Search Service Compaq's fast and powerful AltaVista Search Service is the premier resource for locating information on the Internet. A forerunner A family of ATM adapters from Marconi (formerly Fore Systems). See Marconi. in Web search technology, AltaVista has set new standards, from indexing the entire Internet to providing the Web's first instant language translation capabilities. With an extensive line-up of innovative content and services, AltaVista is now regarded as one of the top destination sites on the Web. For more information, visit AltaVista's flagship site located at http://altavista.digital.com . Note to Editors: Digital Stock, Westlight and Corbis are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corbis Corporation in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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