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Personal Library Software Announces Partnership with Dow Jones for Enhanced Search Engine

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Personal Library Software (PLS) has collaborated with Dow Jones News/Retrieval to release an enhanced Text Library service, incorporating PLS's custom interface and search engine. The new service features real-time updates, more complex query capabilities, and improved performance. This partnership marks a significant milestone for PLS, demonstrating its ability to meet the needs of large-scale industrial applications.

Key Takeaways:

  • Personal Library Software (PLS) partnered with Dow Jones News/Retrieval to release an enhanced Text Library service, utilizing PLS's custom interface and search engine.
  • The new service includes features such as real-time, continuously updated newswires, flexible groupings of large databases for searching with more complex queries, and superior capacity and response time.
  • PLS worked with Dow Jones to integrate its Callable Personal Librarian (CPL) search engine into the new service, allowing for customization and high volumes of data and usage.
  • The partnership highlights PLS's suitability for industrial-strength applications requiring robust and scalable search engines.
  • Dow Jones Business Information Services utilized PLS to build a product that caters to the needs of their customers, providing powerful new features and performance.
  • PLS customers, including prominent companies and institutions, benefit from the company's leading intelligent text-retrieval software.

Statistics:

  • Dow Jones Business Information Services provides business news and information products to corporations, consumers, and private investors through various electronic media, including computer, telephone, facsimile, and radio.
  • Personal Library Software is the leading supplier of intelligent text-retrieval software for online, CD-ROM, and Internet publishing applications.
  • PLS customers include Apple Computer, Grolier, Hewlett Packard, Time Inc., Appleton & Lange, Congressional Quarterly, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Sources:

  • Personal Library Software (PLS), June 12 press release
  • Dow Jones News/Retrieval
  • Dow Jones Business Information Services
  • Personal Library Software, Inc. (PLS.com)
  • Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (NYSE: DJ)
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