iWon.com Becoming Most Comprehensive and Easy to Navigate Search Engine on the Internet
Leading Relevance Technology and Search Index Combined with Key Alliances Launch iWon.com to the Top-Tier of Search Engines
Irvington, NY, July 17, 2000 - Internet portal iWon.com, one of the fastest growing websites in the history of the Internet, today announced alliances with several leading search and technology companies. iWon also announced the addition of Inktomi's. media search database and GEN3tm architecture, a scalable search index of the most comprehensive, highly relevant documents on the Web, making iWon Search one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-navigate search engines on the Internet. iWon's search alliances include industry leaders such as Ask Jeeves, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASKJ), Inktomi (NASDAQ: INKT), LookSmart (NASDAQ: LOOK), RealNames and Fact City, the web's first "fact-finding engine."
The new iWon search engine is designed to get people to the information they are looking for by providing relevant and accurate results, all organized into an efficient easy to use interface.
With iWon Search, Users Can:
Access Most Relevant Index of Documents on the Internet: The default search index at iWon leverages Inktomi's GEN3 architecture, which combines leading relevance technologies and WebMaptm database and includes 500 million of the best documents on the web. The index is constantly updated and refreshed with new content, offering users highly accurate search results and new services.
Save Time with a Professionally Edited Directory: The new iWon Directory, created with LookSmart and Inktomi, allows visitors to access over 1.8 million hand-edited sites categorized into over 170,000 categories.
Find Exactly What They Need: iWon Search saves people time and effort by using Internet Keywords from RealNames. With Internet Keywords, people can instantly find the Web sites for major companies, brands, and products just by typing Internet Keywords, like "Panasonic DVD" or "Ford Explorer", into iWon Search.
Find the Most Popular Sites on the Internet: iWon Search gets people to what's popular through a new partnership with Ask Jeeves. iWon is utilizing Ask Jeeves' Popularity Searchsm, a patented technology, that analyzes the activity of millions of previous Internet search queries to determine the most relevant sites for search requests. iWon, using Ask Jeeves' technology, can now present results in Top 10 lists of the Web's most popular sites and related searches. People using iWon Search save time by benefiting from work already done by previous searches.
Locate Music Files Instantly: iWon Search offers quick access to millions of music files including hundreds of thousands of MP3 files updated daily, leveraging Inktomi's media search database. iWon Audio Search locates actual music files, not merely the website on which they're located, so that people quickly and efficiently find what they are looking for.
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Get All the News: Through the Inktomi relationship, iWon will offer comprehensive news search capabilities from Moreover.com. Moreover.com aggregates news and information from 1,500 web sources in near real time, and then assembles webfeeds in more than 200 categories. This gives users comprehensive, up to date, organized news.
Find Facts Fast...In the coming months, iWon Search will make searches even faster, easier and more relevant. Unlike any other Internet search engine, iWon is partnering with Fact City, the web's first "fact-finding engine." iWon will provide users with an Internet first - a way to ask questions and instantly receive answers instead of a list of web sites. Tens of millions of facts will be accessible, with every fact attributed to an accurate, reliable source. Users will even receive links to related facts and statistics in order to investigate further.
"We are very excited about the enhancements to iWon Search," said Jonas Steinman, iWon Founder and co-CEO. "We have one goal - to help people find the information they are searching for as quickly as possible. We are confident that bringing together these 'best-of-class' partners makes iWon Search one of the best on the Internet."
About iWon
Launched 10 months ago, iWon currently attracts one out of every nine people who visit the Web from work, and one out of every ten people who visit the web from home (Media Metrix, May). iWon is also ranked #1 in user satisfaction among the leading search engines and portal sites (NPD Search and Portal Tracking Study). iWon provides users with world-class content and functionality with leading partners such as Associated Press, CBS, Inktomi, CBS MarketWatch, RealNames, Reuters, TheStreet.com, Travelocity, and WeatherNews Inc.
As an added incentive, iWon gives away to users, $10,000 every day, 30 prizes of $1,000 every week, $1 million every month and $10 million on Tax Day. By simply using the site to search the Web, check email, go shopping, read the news, or perform other regular Internet activities, iWon.com users earn entries with practically every click. To date iWon has given away more than $21 million in cash prizes. For details and official rules, visit www.iwon.com.
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