IBM introduces infoMarket Search, Internet Service Helps Surfers Find Essential Information.
FALLS CHURCH, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 1995--IBM today announced the commercial launch of the infoMarket Search(a) service. Located at http://www.infomkt.ibm.com, infoMarket Search is a new free network offering that helps users to search many different databases simultaneously across the Internet. Using common World Wide Web browsers, such as the IBM WebExplorer(a) included in IBM's Internet Connection for OS/2 Warp(a), NCSA Mosaic(b) or Netscape Navigator(b), the service is accessible from most common office computing environments.
"infoMarket Search will provide customers with an incredibly powerful and flexible solution to their content search and retrieval requirements," said Jeff Crigler, vice president, IBM infoMarket. "The service enables end users to enter a single query that is capable of interrogating nearly all of the common database formats, supports numerous search engines and delivers the content to the predominant end-user platforms. And infoMarket is easy to modify to meet customers' special requirements or systems."
IBM infoMarket Search initially offers users the ability to simultaneously search, locate and retrieve information from important Internet indexes and information resources such as: Yahoo!(b), the popular index of Internet Web sites; the Open Text Index(b), a full-text database containing the most comprehensive listing available of documents contained on the World Wide Web; the McKinley(b), the foremost database of described and rated sites on the Internet today; and the content of over 13,000 USENET News groups. Negotiations are underway with a wide variety of additional content providers, ranging from news services to digital libraries and image databases, which will soon be offered to subscribers of the service.
The infoMarket Search service will be offered free of charge to users through the remainder of 1995. Users will begin to be charged for the service early in 1996, at pricing to be announced.
Powerful Resource for Publishing Information on the Net
infoMarket Search enables content providers to plug their data resources into a complete information management environment, without the need to convert their data to new formats. IBM infoMarket Search employs an open, client/server architecture that accommodates all popular databases and search engines to enable nearly any owner of digital content to offer it to the Internet's 30 million users.
