Ranks.com, The ``NO B.S.'' Search Engine, Makes its Debut ...Business Editors & High Tech Writers DIAMOND BAR, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2001 We're Easy! This slogan A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. Slogans vary from the written and the visual to the chanted and the vulgar. of Ranks.com is dead on accurate in describing how it feels to use the newly launched site. Following a year of research and development behind the scenes, Ranks.com is now considered one of the net's major search engine contenders. Company founder Rick Muenyong, 24, is trying to go three-for-three with his 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 ventures. He's riding a pair of past successes into the launch of Ranks.com, including the YNOT Network and ShortDomains.com. He established YNOT and its parent company Online Imaginations in 1996 and grew the adult webmaster A person responsible for the implementation of a Web site. Webmasters must be proficient in HTML as well as one or more scripting and interface languages such as JavaScript and Perl. They may also have experience with more than one type of Web server. See Web administrator and Webmistress. resource into a profitable and well-regarded networking center. Simultaneously, he invested in several hundred highly brandable domain names and created ShortDomains.com, one of the leaders and most successful resellers in the domain name after-market. Now it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for Muenyong to throw his hat in the ring once again, and on February 1st he'll do just that with Ranks.com. So what's the Ranks.com plan for success? Keep it simple! Along this line, the mainstays of Ranks.com will be accurate indexing, concise descriptions, quality search results, and minimal advertisements. Search engine spiders, which Muenyong describes as "technology applied unintelligently," have been the confusing con·fuse v. con·fused, con·fus·ing, con·fus·es v.tr. 1. a. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off. b. force behind most major search portals today. Accurate site classification which Muenyong claims is "unachievable by search engine spiders," will be completely controlled by Ranks.com's staff of Internet experts. Ranks.com immediately gives users the same top sites they would've found in other search engines only after sifting through hundreds of useless and unrelated sites. Zero banner ads A graphic image used on Web sites to advertise a product or service. Banner ads come in numerous sizes, but are often rectangles 460 pixels wide by 60 pixels high. Also 460 x 55 and 392 x 72 sizes are commonly used. , no pop-up consoles, and a clean stellar interface will challenge rival search engines to clean up their act quickly, or move out of the way. Muenyong believed, "The site feel and navigation will be familiar enough for users to catch on right away, yet the dedication to high-quality listings and a friendly environment will easily differentiate Ranks.com from any of our counterparts." Ranks.com may have a high road to climb, but Muenyong believes that in a Web full of chaos, technology driven search engines will eventually fall prey to his personally funded fine-tuned machine. Visit Ranks.com today: http://www.ranks.com/ A venture by: Powerfirm.com, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control 20955 Pathfinder pathfinder /path·find·er/ (path´find?er) 1. an instrument for locating urethral strictures. 2. a dental instrument for tracing the course of root canals. path·find·er n. Rd. Suite 375 Diamond Bar, CA 91765 |
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