News: Search Engine by ubExact, Premieres Direct Navigation, Action-Based Solution
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 1, 2008 - The beta launch of a direct navigation, action-based search engine, has been released by ubExact, to address search frustrations by consumers and other information seekers.
ubExact is designed to boost ease, speed and relevance of search results, while bringing increased branding opportunities, localization and targeted/relevant audiences to advertisers. ubExact builds trust with users by securing user privacy, and providing opportunities for user- contributed content -- to ensure users have access to links most important to them.
Wilhelmina Stephenson, Founder and CEO of ubExact noted, ''Using direct navigation gives ubExact advertisers an advantage. It gives them greater control by eliminating the need to hire a middleman to track, monitor and analyze search ad ROI placed on the ubExact platform. It also eliminates the need to use complicated keyword optimization and link structure programs, which translates into substantial savings on ad development and placement. And, we offer ad opportunities across the globe or to specific geographical markets for smaller companies with a tighter budget.''
According to the company, by rebuilding the web into a user-centric library, ubExact serves users with a fast, intuitive and simple way to search based on user behavior/actions, geo-targeted metro service areas (MSAs) and direct navigation to desired brands. This horizontal navigation architecture also protects user search privacy.
Based on the most relevant and popular search terms, ubExact speeds users directly to advertisers through the browser address bar -- without requiring memorization of the advertiser's website, or the need to use quotes, plus signs, minus signs, file format, all-in-title, and similar search result manipulators. In addition, ubExact's home page successfully organizes human-edited Web content and intuitively categorizes it into actions: See It, Do It, Shop It, and Find It(SM).
With ubExact's direct navigation architecture, users simply type 'ubexactyourtopic.com' or 'ubexactyourlocationmsa.com' in their browser address bar to get to the most relevant content. For those searching for specific geographic information, ubExact offers tailored results to specific geographic markets, from global all the way down to metropolitan service areas (MSAs).
For advertisers, there is now a more level playing field. Through direct navigation, ubExact weeds out undesired audiences for advertisers. Rather than paying for keywords that get you on page 2 or page 20 of search results, ubExact's advertising opportunities give businesses greater opportunities to compete.
ubExact expands the brand advantage generally available exclusively by a retailer's own site, and offers it across the Internet platform. Keyword ads are prominently placed as 'Preferred Link Ads', which when selected, open to full-page ads (no more tiny boxes or skyscrapers). Exclusive keyword-driven ads or 'Nav Ads,' are offered to businesses with branded trademarks, for example, www.ubexactneimanmarcus.com. They are also available to advertisers whose offering is exactly relevant to the keyword search the user types. Nav Ads bypass all results and navigate users directly to the advertiser's website. This is a seismic shift in how advertisers are currently treated by other search engines.
In an effort to ensure relevance, brand terms can only be purchased by the brand who owns that name. And ubExact's results don't discriminate against companies without .com suffixes or those with hyphenated domain names. If your company has a complicated web address, ubExact can make it more intuitive when you secure a Nav Ad.
The StatMarket division of WebSideStory notes that more than two-thirds of daily global Internet users arrive at a website via direct navigation, compared with just 14 percent from search engines. Additionally, the number of users trying to use 'direct navigational methods' within search engines in also increasing -- representing approximately 25% in mid-2007. WebSideStory also found that direct navigation had a 4.23% conversion-to-sale ad rate, while search engine clicks, on average, lead to a 2.3% conversion-to-sale ad rate. The direct navigation market was on track to reach $1.1 billion in ads in 2007 according to Jordan Rohan, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets.
Based in Fort Lauderdale, FL., ubExact is the world's only direct navigation, action-based search engine. ubExact delivers relevant search results in the simplest and quickest way possible. ubExact organizes content by the actions See It, Do It, Shop It, Find It, eliminates spam and unwanted ads, simplifies search session history tracking, provides enhanced user alerts, and helps users discover related results that like-minded users find meaningful. ubExact offers tailored results and ad opportunities to specific searching communities and geographic markets that span from global to metro service areas (MSAs), and delivers relevant audiences to advertisers. ubExact's patent-pending horizontal architecture is highly scalable to support technical advancements, including the move towards voice recognition technology and mobile search.
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News: Web Hosting E-Commerce Firm, Channel Intelligence, Awarded for Innovation
Orlando, Florida - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 30, 2008 - Website
e-commerce hosting facilitator, Channel Intelligence, Inc. (CI), has received the William C. Schwartz Industry Innovation Award representing Osceola County from the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission (EDC).
Selected for its innovation in online commerce, CI offers product suites that enable manufacturers and retailers to build their brands online while influencing sales.
Alan Fulmer, Co-founder and Executive Vice President of CI noted, ''Our innovative solutions ensure that our client’s products are accurately and completely represented and placed in the proper location, making it easier for consumers to purchase those products. This results in higher web sales for our clients and increased loyalty from their consumers.''
The annual event is named in honor of the late William C. Schwartz, an inspirational community leader, business pioneer and innovator within the field of optics and photonics. Over 350 of the area’s business and community leaders attended, gathering at the Orlando Marriott Lake Mary to honor companies from each of the four counties served by the EDC - Orange, Seminole, Lake and Osceola counties - and from the City of Orlando.
A leader in e-commerce since 1999, this company has experienced phenomenal growth, which mirrors growth in online sales. The EDC honored four other local companies for innovative practices, products and/or ideas including Laser Photonics of Seminole County, Covanta Energy of Lake County, HD Supply for City of Orlando and Siemens of Orange County, while Planar Energy Devices received the Florida High Tech Corridor Council Award. This is the second year the Florida High Tech Corridor Council’s Award for Innovation was also presented in conjunction with the program.
CI is a product data technology and marketing company focused on helping retailers and manufacturers make their products easier for consumers to find and buy on the Internet and in local retail stores. The CI product database is capable of storing, managing, optimizing and analyzing hundreds of millions of products every day. This database powers product data for leading manufacturers and retailers in Computing, Hardware, Tools, Appliances, Consumer Electronics, Toys and other Consumer Product industries such as Apparel, Cosmetics and Jewelry. CI offers innovative suites of services for hundreds of the world’s best known manufacturers, retailers and publishers and provides distribution of product data to over 50 destination websites, including the proprietary CI Ad Network. Cultivating partnerships with some of the best solution providers in the eCommerce arena, CI is a partner company of Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE) and Aweida Capital Management. CI was founded in 1999 by CEO Robert Wight and EVP Alan Fulmer and is headquartered in Orlando, Fla., with offices in Geneva, Switzerland and London, England.
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News: Search Engine Product Sourcing Company, Develops New Application
Columbia, Illinois - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 30, 2008 - Product sourcing company, Budnick Converting, Inc., has been instrumental in establishing a search engine solution, designed specifically for the adhesive tape industry.
Ann Wegmann, President and Owner of Budnick Converting, Inc. noted, ''As the authoritative web site of the adhesive tape industry, TapeInfo.com has become the industry standard among engineers, purchasing agents and operations personnel in the industrial arena for finding adhesive tape information, products and converting services.''
With more than 10,000 types of adhesive tape on the market, the tape conversion company Budnick Converting, Inc. realizes the challenge facing new product engineers. The company has responded to the need for an effective tape selection system by creating a comprehensive and intelligent adhesive tape search engine at tapeinfo.com.
According to the company, while iIt may seem odd to some that there are more than 10,000 distinct types of adhesive tape in today's marketplace, the huge variety is essential to the high quality and cost-effective production of an even greater number of consumer products. The downside to this wealth of options is that finding, evaluating and comparing the different types of tape can be a complex and time-consuming task. But the product sourcing company Budnick Converting, Inc., a leader in adhesive tape trading and converting, has introduced a user-friendly adhesive tape search engine at tapeinfo.com to make it a more manageable job and provide users with true decision facilitating information.
Tapeinfo.com boasts an innovative interface that allows its users to search, browse and refine selections of adhesive tapes based on the criteria that matter most to engineers, purchasing agents and operations personnel within industrial manufacturing industries. In addition to making it easier to search for adhesive tapes, tapeinfo.com also streamlines processes for ordering the products at discounts and requesting custom price quotes.
Budnick Converting, Inc., which has its own separate corporate information site at budnickconverting.com, is an adhesive tape trading company that converts standard adhesive tapes and foams into customized, process-ready shapes, lengths and layouts.
Tapeinfo.com makes use of multiple search modules so that it can be used by prospective customers from all areas of the diverse industrial manufacturing industry. Users can search based on specific tape application issues or technical datasheet information, and they can even build a custom tape by providing specifications to the product sourcing company.
In 2005, not long after the launch of tapeinfo.com, the site was named one of the year's '10 Great Web Sites' by btobonline.com< an onlines source for business-to-business marketing specialists.
Budnick Converting, Inc. is a product sourcing company specializing in converting adhesive tapes, foams and other flexible materials into custom shapes, sizes and configurations. Budnick's experts are committed to delivering innovative solutions in a timely manner to provide their clients with shorter sourcing times, lower material costs, efficient tape application systems and high-value final products.
For more about the adhesive tape trading company Budnick Converting, Inc., please visit: http://budnickconverting.com.
To learn more about the search engine, please visit: www.tapeinfo.com.
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News: Web Hosting Tutorials for PayPal, DotNetPanel, Released by DemoWolf
Nova Scotia, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 29, 2008 - Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has released 3 new series of voice tutorials for PayPal VOICE series (31 demos), DotNetPanel end-user VOICE series (22 demos), and
DotNetPanel reseller VOICE series (15 demos).
The Voice tutorials are similar to the standard tutorials we released during the last few weeks, except that these are professionally recorded with audio narration.
Rob Moore, President of DemoWolf noted, ''DemoWolf is the only flash tutorial provider that produces Voice Tutorials. By adding a professional voice to our tutorials, users will be able to watch AND listen as they learn, thus increasing the effectiveness of learning from an online video tutorial.''
The new voice tutorials are currently on sale until September 30. The DotNetPanel end-user VOICE series is $44.97, the reseller series is $34.97, and the PayPal VOICE series is $89.97. When hosting companies purchase DemoWolf tutorials, they are produced with that hosting company's logo in the first and last frame of every tutorial, so the tutorials are fully branded for the purchaser.
Earlier this month, DemoWolf made available toll-free telephone ordering from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. DemoWolf can be called Toll-Free from the United Kingdom (0808 101 3478), and Australia (1 800 307 165), as well the USA and Canada (1-866-905-4678). With the addition of these toll free numbers, over 80% of DemoWolf's existing customers can now call toll free.
In addition, DemoWolf has announced that they are now taking orders by phone, instead of just via their website. Whether customers call one of their toll free numbers, or their local number (for local customers or customers in other countries not covered by a toll free number), they will be able to place their order over the phone.
95% of the order process can be completed during the phone call. Once the order is placed, a confirmation email will be sent to the customer with a link to make payment either by credit card or PayPal. The customer would then just have to make their payment, and send DemoWolf their company logo for insertion into the tutorials they're purchasing.
DemoWolf's 1 hour order fulfillment means that if orders are received within their extended business hours (between 7am and 8pm Monday to Friday, and 7am until 12pm Saturday and Sunday), then the order will be fulfilled and tutorials sent to the customer within 1 hour of receiving the order, payment and logo. Orders that are received outside of these hours will be completed first thing the following morning.
DemoWolf offers over 2100 flash tutorials for hosting companies, including over 700 voice tutorials (flash tutorials that include voice audio narration). Available tutorials include cPanel, Plesk, Helm, H-Sphere, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, SmarterMail, RVSiteBuilder, Fantastico, Drupal, Gallery, WordPress and many more. There are several hundred more tutorials at various stages of development. New series to be released shortly include PayPal VOICE, H-Sphere 3.1 (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice), DotNetPanel (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice), and Plesk 8.3 for Windows (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice).
For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.
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News: Search Engine by MetaCarta, Unveils New Geographic Referencing Platform
Cambridge, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 29, 2008 - Provider of geographic search solutions, MetaCarta, Inc., has released its Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (MetaCarta GSRP), designed to identify search points.
All manner of information is identified, including:
places and points-of-interest in text documents, news feeds, email, reports, web pages and blogs, and assigns latitude and longitude coordinates so that the content can be searched, retrieved, and visually displayed on a map.
Claudine Bianchi, Vice President of marketing at MetaCarta noted, ''Location has always been an important factor in government, energy exploration, and environmental management applications; however the mobile internet has introduced new possibilities of combining consumer location with other applications such as social networking, digital news delivery, and revenue-generating premium publisher services. MetaCarta's unique technology integrates content, search, and maps and is playing a pivotal role in building out the GeoWeb -- an effort to organize information around geography on the Internet.''
At present, not all geographic references can be identified by traditional search engines. The MetaCarta GSRP can identify more than 190 million place names. For the first time, enterprise organizations and public sector agencies are now able to geo-enable all of their content in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, or mixed-language documents so it can be used in location-based applications to help visualize trends, generate new revenue, drive premium services, and enhance intelligence analysis.
Seventy percent of all content on the Web and in corporate repositories contains some type of geographic reference that cannot be found using traditional search engines or in location-based applications. For example, if a user were to search on the term "Manhattan," a text search engine would return results for the cocktail named Manhattan as well as Manhattan, Kansas, Manhattan, Illinois, and Manhattan, New York. It would not return references to 'New York City' or the 'Big Apple' unless the term Manhattan was specifically stated in the text.
MetaCarta, Inc. is the leading provider of geographic search and referencing solutions. MetaCarta products make data and unstructured content 'location-aware' making that information geographically relevant. Using a map interface, these innovative solutions make it possible for customers to discover, visualize, and act on important location-based information. Founded by a team of MIT researchers in 2001, MetaCarta is privately held, with US headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts and offices in Vienna, Virginia; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; Houston, Texas and resellers worldwide.
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