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Google was founded in 1998 by Stanford University Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin to create a new generation of powerful, scalable search engine products to improve the user experience of searching the web. Based on three years of advanced research in computer science, Google is dedicated to providing the best user search experience by delivering a powerful, yet simple-to-use format for finding the most relevant answers to search queries.
Google currently offers search solutions through its own destination site at http://www.google.com. The company also offers co-branded web search and site search solutions for information content providers.Google is privately held. The company's funding partners include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. Google is based in Mountain View, Calif. More information about Google can be found on the company's website at http://www.google.com.
Google's corporate customers include Netscape, a subsidiary of AOL (NYSE: AOL), which incorporates Google’s search technology into its Netscape Search on the Netcenter portal. Other customers include Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), a leading developer and provider of open source Linux-based operating system; wunderground.com, a leading market innovator for Web-based weather delivery; and Gobi, a leading technology service provider.
Google's destination site was listed in PC Magazine's July 1999 Top 100 Web Sites and recently was cited as a staff favorite in Newsweek magazine.
Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, to represent the figure 1 followed by 100 zeroes. Google's use of the term reflects the immense amount of information available on the web.
More information about Google can be found on the company's website at http://www.google.com.
AltaVista Company is the premier online media and commerce network. The company integrates unique Internet technology and services to deliver relevant results faster for both individuals and Web-based businesses. By combining distinctive AltaVista brand services with 'best of the Web' relationships, the AltaVista network creates the most satisfying Internet experience. AltaVista is building on its heritage of technology and innovation leadership, offering award-winning services including: My AltaVista, AltaVista Finance, FreeAccess, AltaVista Search, AltaVista Local Portal Services, the AltaVista microportal, and AltaVista Shopping.com. For more information, visit AltaVista at http://www.altavista.com. AltaVista is a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMGI), Andover, Mass. Compaq Computer Corporation holds the remaining minority stake in AltaVista.
IntelliSeek Inc., founded in May 1997, is a privately held company with offices in San Francisco and Cincinnati. The company's mission is to create software solutions and offer services that enable users to harness, manage and leverage digital information distributed across corporate intranets as well as the global Internet.IntelliSeek's flagship product, BullsEye, is a groundbreaking, comprehensive software solution to the problem of quickly finding only relevant information on the Internet. It combines guided, intelligent search, analysis and management of web-based information with automated tracking and alerts for changes - all in a single, integrated application. BullsEye offers powerful intelligent search agents and completely automates the retrieval of new information in all areas of user interest www.intelliseek.com/prod/bullseye.htm
While developing BullsEye over the past three years, IntelliSeek discovered a vast amount of information on the Internet, which was not accessible by today's search engine crawlers and indexes. This is the Invisible Web. Realizing the value of targeted information, the company began creating the largest searchable database, and called it InvisibleWeb.com. This new directory www.invisibleweb.com contains over10, 000 (and growing) databases and searchable sources on the Web.
America Online, Inc. combines the best of Internet search technologies and content to help consumers find what they're looking for online - quickly and easily. The AOL, Inc.'s search services are available across the entire family of AOL brands including Netscape at http://search.netscape.com, AOL.com at http://search.aol.com and the AOL service (Keyword: Search).Most recently announced, AOL Search -- available on the AOL service and on AOL.COM -- is a part of AOL's ongoing effort to develop new products and services that make the Internet easier, faster and more convenient to navigate for AOL's more than 19 million members. An integral feature of AOL 5.0, AOL Search offers members the ability to search AOL and the entire Web from one location and has seen a more than 43% increase in traffic in its first 30 days after premiering. Based on Netscape's Open Directory, the fastest growing human edited Web site directory, AOL Search relies on a team of over 17,000 editors to select and categorize the best sites on the Web and offers features including:
The Open Directory Project is the first Internet directory search service built by the Web community at large and is an easy and fast way to find information relevant to users needs. The Open Directory Project empowers the Web community to review and categorize sites based on their area of interest and expertise. The Open Directory Project offers more than 1,000,000 sites in over 160,000 categories from 229 countries in 44 languages, and is available today at http://dmoz.org.
Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia, is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 19 million members, and CompuServe, with approximately 2.2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; the Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers; and AOL MovieFone, the nation's #1 movie listing guide and ticketing service; and Spinner Networks and Nullsoft, Inc., leaders in Internet music. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy.
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