Cox Newspapers Selects Endeca to Power New Search Capabilities on Atlanta-Journal Constitution and Other Top News Sites; Leading News Publisher Adds Guided Search To High Value Online Services.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Endeca, the leading provider of Guided Navigation(R), Search and Analysis solutions, announced today that Cox Newspapers, Inc. has selected Endeca's platform to power numerous applications across its many popular news properties. Starting with its largest paper and site, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution (www.ajc.com), Cox Newspapers will begin to use Endeca's solutions to offer cutting-edge capabilities on popular, high value services, such as shopping, jobs, real estate, automotive, and more. The new Endeca-powered services, which will debut later this spring on the AJC.com site, will be rolled out to other Cox Newspapers sites in the coming months. The deal follows Endeca's recent agreement with leading British publisher Guardian Newspapers, and Endeca's official unveiling of new Information Access Solutions for Media & Publishing, both announced in late-November 2005. While the debate in news publishing continues over the right balance of free content vs. premium content, services like classifieds and job listings have proven themselves as extremely popular, revenue-generating vehicles and perfect cross-medium complements. Publishers, facing competition from other regional dailies and Internet pure-plays, are increasingly 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. ways to enhance these high-value services. "Services like shopping, job listings, autos and other classified verticals are incredibly important to both our visitors and our business," said Leon Levitt, VP/Digital Media, at Cox Newspapers. "Our ability to consistently deliver a superior user experience is a critical component in attracting readers, buyers and sellers, alike. Endeca gives us the flexible platform which we can use to quickly and consistently deliver this superior experience, where it's needed most." Endeca's next-generation search and information access solutions help users search, browse and compare listings and information by all of the desirable and required criteria that is available. For example, a job seeker job seeker also job·seek·er n. One who seeks employment. , looking for an opportunity in finance types "junior accountant" into a search box. With a traditional search engine they would be forced to manually sift through a long list - in many cases multiple pages -- of all the job listings that mentioned "junior accountant." Frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: , the job seeker begins to add more keywords, such as location, salary, etc., hoping to trim the list down. But now, the engine returns only a "no results found" message. With Endeca, the original search returns a list of all the jobs, and offers a variety of ways to hone in on only the most desirable by exposing related criteria. For example, key criteria such as location, salary, years of experience, hours, employer, benefits, etc. - all derived directly from the listings themselves - are now exposed as valid refinement options. So rather than having to guess the perfect query, the system simply guides the user through the process, always exposing and offering valid next steps. "Successful regional daily publishers like Cox have incredible advantages over pure play Internet services, including regional awareness, cross-medium exposure and brand credibility. The key is converting these advantages into revenue opportunities," said Steve Papa, founder and chairman of Endeca. "By investing in the user experience - in the places it matters most - publishers are seeing remarkable returns that impact both top and bottom line goals." About Endeca Endeca's award-winning Guided Navigation, Search, and Analysis solutions help organizations integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve business problems associated with information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. . Endeca's customers include a wide range of enterprises, including retailers (Barnes & Noble, The Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , Wal-Mart); financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. (Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , MFS Investment Management MFS Investment Management, formerly Massachusetts Financial Services, is a Boston, Massachusetts-based financial services firm. In its publicity, MFS claims to have invented the mutual fund. The current chair of the company is Robert Pozen. , Putnam Investments Putnam Investments was founded in 1937 by George Putnam. At the same time, he founded its first mutual fund offering, The George Putnam Fund of Boston.[1] Putnam has offices in London and Tokyo, and its headquarters is located in Boston, Massachusetts. ); manufacturing and distribution (IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Arrow Electronics Arrow Electronics NYSE: ARW is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Melville, New York. This company specializes in products and services of electronic components and computer products. , John Deere); media and publishing (World Book, The McClatchy Company and IHS IHS (I.H.S.) first three letters of Greek spelling of Jesus; also taken as acronym of Iesus Hominum Salvator ‘Jesus, Savior of Mankind.’ [Christian Symbolism: Brewer Dictionary, 480] See : Christ IHS ) and government (the Library of Congress, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , the National Cancer Institute). Endeca is a private company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. More information: www.endeca.com or info@endeca.com. About Cox Newspapers As one of the nation's largest newspaper publishing enterprises, Cox Newspapers now produces 17 daily and 25 weekly newspapers. The company also operates direct mail businesses, distributes classified advertising publications, customized newsletters and owns one-third of a newsprint manufacturing business. Total circulation for the company's newspapers reaches 1.2 million each weekday and more than 1.6 million on Sundays. Endeca and Guided Navigation are registered trademarks, and Content Spotlighting is a trademark of Endeca Technologies, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned herein are or may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies or organizations. |
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