Representatives of Go2Net will be in the HUB on Friday, February 25, from 9am to 2pm.
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Go2Net (http://www.go2net.com/) is one of the Internet's leading networks, providing consumer services, business services, and enabling services. The company offers through the World Wide Web a network of branded properties and aggregated content in the categories of search services and e-commerce solutions. The company also develops Internet technologies for its own network and for license to strategic partners. The Go2Net Network SM is home to many of the Internet's leading vertical destinations, including: MetaCrawler ®, Silicon Investor SM, the HyperMart Network ®, PlaySite SM, Dogpile SM and 100hot ®. Media Metrix ranks The Go2Net Network the 10th most trafficked network on the Internet (November 1999).
Go2Net's vision is to be the Internet's premier destination, leveraging virtual communities that help our users conduct research, access financial information, play exciting games, and effectively participate in the electronic marketplace to create a compelling network offering.
Go2Net Personal
Go2Net Personal (http://www.go2net.com/) provides users with a comprehensive Internet start page featuring the critically acclaimed MetaCrawler search technology. In addition to general and category-specific metasearch, Go2Net Personal offers customizable news, discussion, and stock information, as well as direct access to Go2Net's own finance, free Web hosting, shopping and Java multiplayer game sites. As a portal to the Go2Net Network and the Web as a whole, Go2Net Personal is What's Next (SM).
In operation since 1995, Silicon Investor holds the number one market position for financial discussion on the Web, both in terms of quantity and quality of messages. More than 15,000 messages are posted each day and approximately 6 million messages have been posted to date, a number that represents more than 70% of all financial discussion on the Internet over the last three years. It is one of the most trafficked Web sites in the personal finance category and is one of the top 100 Web sites overall according to PC Magazine Online. In addition, Brad and Jeff Dryer, co-founders of Silicon Investor, have been recognized by Institutional Investor magazine as being among 20 pioneers who are revolutionizing finance on the Web.
Dogpile
Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/) is a leading metasearch service that integrates several medium and large Web search and index guides into a single service. It also provides a single launching point for stock quotes, usenet articles, weather forecasts, yellow pages, and more. With MetaCrawler and Dogpile, The Go2Net Network offers the Web's two most popular metasearch services.
100hot
In operation since 1995, 100hot (http://www.100hot.com/) is the first category-by-category ranking index of Internet sites. The 100hot index identifies and ranks the top 100 Web sites in such categories as technology, entertainment, finance, lifestyle, games, sports, and news. 100hot compiles its listings based on the analysis of log files from cache servers located at strategic points throughout the Internet. 100hot is the Web's leading free site-ranking service.
HyperMart and Virtual Avenue
HyperMart (http://www.hypermart.net/) and Virtual Avenue (http://www.virtualave.net/) provide free Web hosting services to businesses. Together, they represent the Web's largest business community, with more than 650,000 member businesses. HyperMart and Virtual Avenue services include the HyperMart Small Business Center which supplies businesses with a comprehensive, one-stop portal featuring the Internet's leading business products, services, and reference materials. This complements Hypermart's industry-leading customer support program which offers technical support twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week to fulfill all HyperMart member business needs.
FreeYellow.com
FreeYellow.com (http://www.freeyellow.com/) provides free web site building tools and hosting services. Their technologies enable small businesses to easily build their own Web sites, complementing Go2Net's HyperMart and Virtual Avenue, which provide free hosting and an array of business-focused services to one of the Internet's largest aggregations of small to medium-sized businesses. FreeYellow.com also recently received accreditation from ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to provide top-level Web domain registration services.
Rated the #1 metasearch service on the World Wide Web, MetaCrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com/) continues to garner popularity and acclaim. Here's why: In response to every user query, MetaCrawler incorporates from the top search engines on the Web. It collates results, eliminates duplication, scores the results and provides the user with a comprehensive list of relevant sites. MetaCrawler offers a low-bandwidth version, power-search options, and other customizable features. Additional value-added features include the MetaCrawler Marketplace, an online shopping center; directory services; MiniCrawler, a small desktop version of MetaCrawler; and the unique MetaSpy feature, which allows users to view other users' queries-in-progress. In the December 1998 PC Magazine search engine review, MetaCrawler received the Editors' Choice award for the second year in a row.
WebMarket is committed to offering its users the fastest and simplest way to shop the Web, using the most innovative and comprehensive Web-based shopping technologies and tools. WebMarket introduced "metashopping" to the Web by offering online shoppers the ability to comparison shop from more than 80 of the Web's most recognizable online merchants. It also provides reports and ratings on the Web's top merchant sites. How does the comparison shopping technology work? Each user query is run through a comprehensive database of merchant Web sites. The search technology returns to the user a list of prices on the item searched. Users can also sort results by merchant, brand, availability, shipping parameters and more. Each result has a link to the corresponding merchant site so that the user can immediately purchase the desired item at the best price.
Other Interests: The Useless WWW pages, MetaSpy
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