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hakia licenses its OntoSem technology to Riverglass Inc.

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hakia.pnghakia.com, the meaning-based search engine, has licensed hakia OntoSem, its Ontological Semantic technology, to RiverGlass, Inc., provider of advanced real-time analytics and intelligent web information collection and analysis solutions. RiverGlass, Inc. will integrate hakia OntoSem in its analysis software.

hakia OntoSem is a modular, extensible, and adaptable toolset for government, business, education and research applications to enable developers to use the meaning of language and not just text string matching for applications, including: information retrieval, analysis, and distribution; text summarization; information assurance and security; machine translation; ontology support; terminology standardization; and supply chain automation.

“We are excited that RiverGlass is our first licensee through its integration of hakia OntoSem into their intelligent web monitoring system. We expect many other technology innovators to move in this direction,”
Dr. Christian F. Hempelmann, Chief Scientific Officer at hakia.com, said.

Originally posted on March 19, 2008 @ 9:10 am

Business.com transforms business product and service search

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Business.com, the business search engine, directory and pay-per-click advertising network, announced the launch of new “Channels” that deliver improved usability and audience targeting
capabilities around two core needs of every business – money and technology.

The Business.com Money Channel and Technology Channel integrate features delivering unique value to both users and B2B advertisers, including new business how-to guide content integrated into directory pages.

Originally posted on March 17, 2008 @ 10:10 pm

Yellowpages.com expands to include Microsoft search sites

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Yellowpages.com announced a distribution agreement with Microsoft Corp. that will put Yellowpages.com’s comprehensive advertising listings and content in front of consumers who use Microsoft’s local search sites. The agreement is expected to launch in early April and will give Yellowpages.com advertisers exposure through Microsoft’s search pages within the Live Search and Live Search Maps properties, including MSN Yellow Pages.

Originally posted on March 17, 2008 @ 7:39 pm

Local.com triples technology licensees, reaches record network traffic

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Local.com Corporation revealed twelve new license agreements for its local search Patent No. 7,231,405. The company also announced the expansion of the Local Connect search network to 570 regional media sites, and a record 4.7 million monthly unique visitors in February.

The patent licenses have been integrated into new and revised contracts for Local.com’s Local Connect platform, which was expanded last year via Local.com’s acquisition of PremierGuide. Participating sites have grown from approximately 400 in the middle of 2007 to 570 at the end of February.

Local.com’s Local Connect search network reached record traffic of 4.7 million monthly unique visitors in February 2008, up from 3.9 million in January. The network is one of the largest local search syndication networks, publishing business information on over 570 regional media sites, including newspapers, TV and radio stations, and city portals.

Originally posted on March 17, 2008 @ 5:25 pm

EveryZing provides online search solution for WNYC Radio, America’s largest public radio station

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EveryZing, a next-generation universal search and search engine optimization (SEO) technologies, announced that WNYC has chosen EveryZing to power its online audio search capabilities. With more consumers turning to the web for content, WNYC needed a viable, proven solution to translate its broadcast success to the WNYC.org web site.
EveryZing’s ezSEARCH and ezSEO products enable WNYC to create a high-quality, high-consumption online channel that will drive even greater listener interaction. Reaching more than one million listeners weekly, WNYC 93.9 FM and AM 820 represent America’s most listened-to public radio stations.

EveryZing’s world class speech-to-text technology has the unrivaled ability to extract a full-text output from audio and video files across the Web. With this technology, EveryZing created ezSEARCH, the Web’s first integrated universal site search solution, enabling multimedia content to be indexed and searched just like any other Web document. ezSEARCH, together with EveryZing’s ezSEO, makes multimedia content an integral part of the burgeoning online search economy.

Originally posted on March 18, 2008 @ 1:51 pm