p-ZOOM Revolutionizes Internet Search Experience with Innovative Search Engine Companion

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BIGontheNet Pte Ltd, a leading provider of innovative Internet search products and solutions, unveiled p-ZOOM, a first-ever search engine companion that provides a meaningful, hierarchical display of search results across multiple search engines. This web browser-embedded search engine companion allows users to "zoom" ahead of pages of search results, clustering them into meaningful folders of similar topics, and providing a seamless search-and-find experience. p-ZOOM supports all-time favorite search engines including Google, MSN, and Yahoo, and is currently available for Windows 2000 and XP platforms.

Key Takeaways:

  • p-ZOOM is the first-ever search engine companion to provide a meaningful, hierarchical display of search results across multiple search engines, making the search experience less tedious and time-consuming.
  • The p-ZOOM search engine companion allows users to "zoom" ahead of pages of search results, clustering them into meaningful folders of similar topics, and providing a seamless search-and-find experience.
  • p-ZOOM supports all-time favorite search engines including Google, MSN, and Yahoo, for both Windows 2000 and XP platforms.
  • The architecture of p-ZOOM enables it to dynamically cluster search results as soon as they arrive from the search engine, using a Windows Explorer-style navigational interface.
  • p-ZOOM will be released for sale in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean markets in the near future, and will be available as a Preview Edition with multiple search engines support and a selection of display templates for US$39.90.
  • BIGontheNet's founder and CEO, Viktor Cheng, stated that "Ideally, searching and gathering information on the Internet should be effective, fast and easy," and that p-ZOOM addresses this need by making searching for information on the web a refreshingly less tedious experience.
  • Executive Producer of DEMO 2004, Chris Shipley, noted that p-ZOOM improves Internet users' search experience by allowing them to drill-down through topics to locate the information they need, while still using their favorite search engines.

Statistics:

  • The Preview Edition of p-ZOOM will be available for download at http://www.zoomstation.com/ for US$39.90.
  • BIGontheNet's flagship product, ZOOM, supports most popular web search engines such as Google, MSN, and Yahoo, apart from English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean search engines.
  • Approximately 60 new companies, products, and technologies are featured at the annual DEMO conference, while DEMOmobile features approximately 35 new mobile technologies.
  • The official release of p-ZOOM is expected in the next quarter.

Sources:

  • "BIGontheNet Unveils p-ZOOM, a Search Engine Companion that Makes Searching the Internet a Refreshingly Less Tedious Experience," PR Newswire, Feb. 16.
  • "About BIGontheNet," BIGontheNet Private Limited, http://www.zoomstation.com/.
  • "About DEMO 2004," DEMO 2004, http://www.demo.com/.