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THUNDERSTONE TO POWER HOLLYWOOD.COM SEARCH ENGINE
CLEVELAND, OH -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/15/2004 -- Thunderstone Software
announced its sale of a search system for the Hollywood.com website.
Thunderstone's Webinator product will provide an up-to-date indexing of
around one million movie reviews, entertainment listings, and related
information appearing on the re-designed new and improved Hollywood.com
web site.
Webinator is one of the original web-search software products,
introduced in 1995 and now in major release 5. Webinator powers search
features for many hundreds of web sites in many languages around the
world.
Hollywood.com is one of the leading movie-related sites on the
Internet, featuring movie reviews, showtimes listings, entertainment
news, and an extensive multimedia library. Hollywood.com serves more
than one billion web pages annually.
"We found Webinator the best technology for searching our content under
our requirements," said Laurie S. Silvers, President of Hollywood.com.
"Its many advanced features were crucial, such as its ability to
reindex fast-changing subsets of the site quickly, and its ability to
crawl through JavaScript links. Our site structure is somewhat
complicated but Webinator handles it beautifully."
Thunderstone's general manager, John Turnbull, said: "We built many
features into Webinator to optimize it for indexing large complex web
sites. We're happy to see that effort put to good use on
Hollywood.com."
Thunderstone's Webinator is available in a variety of configurations
including a free version. For more information, see
http://www.webinator.com.
ABOUT THUNDERSTONE
Thunderstone Software LLC is a pioneer of search engine technology,
providing text retrieval products to industry, government, and
educational institutions since 1981. Thunderstone's flagship Texis
software is the most versatile platform for search application
development. Texis is at the heart of the Webinator and Search
Appliance products. Texis uniquely integrates natural language and
relevance ranking functionality with structured SQL relational database
indexing. Applications of Thunderstone technologies include: online
publishing, product catalogs, classified advertising, document
management, text mining, web searching, and intelligence.
Thunderstone's products are used on thousands of web sites worldwide.
Major customers include eBay, Corbis, QVC, About.com, ZDNet, and
HotJobs. For more information, visit http://www.thunderstone.com or
call +1 216-820-2200.
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