InfoSeek Launches First One-Stop Internet Source for Information; Company Aims to Change the Way People Find Information On-Line.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 1995-- InfoSeek(TM) Corporation today announced a new Internet-based information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. service, InfoSeek Search. The new service gives users with access to the World Wide Web an easy way to search for and retrieve articles from more than 100 computer publications, 10,000 Internet newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. and 200,000 World Wide Web pages. InfoSeek's database contains more than 2 million articles and currently is the largest single collection of searchable information about the Internet and computer-related topics. The company expects to expand its offerings soon with a wide variety of additional sources. The company also announced that it has reached agreements with well-known information publishers to provide content for InfoSeek Search. These include Business Wire, CW Publishing Inc., Information Access Co., InfoWorld Publishing Co., Newsbytes News Network, PR Newswire  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . and The Reference Press. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. InfoSeek's President Steven T. Kirsch kirsch n. A colorless brandy made from the fermented juice of cherries. [French, short for German Kirschwasser; see kirschwasser. , "Today, information is expensive and hard to find and the time has come for the economics of the industry to change. Traditional on-line information search services have experienced slow growth because the price and complexity of their systems make them attractive only to a small number of professional searchers. InfoSeek aims to help revolutionize the industry by offering an Internet-based search service that's inexpensive, fast and easy to use." InfoSeek's full-text search A search that compares every word in a document, as opposed to searching an abstract or a set of keywords associated with the document. Word processors and text editors contain full-text search functions that let you find a word or phrase anywhere in the document. service is compatible with a wide variety of World Wide Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
Kirsch said that InfoSeek Search is set apart from competitors because of its low price, ease of use and Internet availability. It is also the only tool available for searching the last four weeks of Usenet News (Netnews) articles. The company's natural-language search system allows subscribers to ask questions in plain English rather than requiring special commands and yields extremely precise results. Last year, InfoSeek conducted a successful free trial of the service; commercial-quality service has been available since late last year and has already attracted the interest of thousands of Internet users. Dr. Harry J. Saal, 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. of Smart Valley Inc., said, "I've used InfoSeek to search the World Wide Web and Netnews groups, and have found it to be a unique and useful tool. It consistently finds not only the documents I am 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. , but other useful and relevant items that I didn't know existed. I look forward to using the service in the future as InfoSeek adds new collections, enabling me to search on-line for other topics." -0-
InfoSeek Collections and Information Providers
Advanced Systems Integrated Media Inc.
Business Wire Business Wire
Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate
Computerworld CW Publishing Inc.
Computer Select Information Access Company
FrameMaker 4 User Guide
and Help Notes Frame Technology Corp.
InfoWorld InfoWorld Publishing Co.
Interactive Publishing Alert Interactive Communications
Intl. Inc.
Newsbytes Newsbytes News Network
PR Newswire PR Newswire
Hoover's Master List Database The Reference Press
Hoover's Company Profile Database
Industrial Outlook Database
-0- Price and Availability Individual subscriptions to the InfoSeek Search service are available for $9.95 per month, which includes 100 queries and article retrievals from most collections; there is no connect-time charge. Additional queries and retrievals are 10 cents each. World Wide Web document retrievals are free; retrievals from commercial collections are priced from 5 cents to $5, depending on the collection searched. Corporate accounts are also available. InfoSeek Corporation is a privately-held company in Santa Clara, Calif. It was started in 1994 by Steve Kirsch, the founder and former president of Frame Technology as well as the founder and former president of Mouse Systems. InfoSeek Search is a service on the Internet's World-Wide Web that enables users to find and retrieve relevant information quickly, easily and at a low cost. Additional information on InfoSeek is available by accessing URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. http://www.infoseek.com. Those interested can also send e-mail to info@infoseek.com or telephone (408) 982-4450. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: InfoSeek is a trademark of InfoSeek Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. CONTACT: Hamilton Communications Nancy R. Teater, 415/321 0252 nrt@hamilton.com |
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