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Business.com Makes Finding Business Contacts Easier With "People Search"
"People Search" provides access to 24 million business professionals online
Santa Monica, CA, January 26, 2005 -Business.com (www.business.com), the search engine designed and organized for business, today announced the addition of "People Search" to its core business search capabilities. "People Search" allows business professionals to easily locate and learn about sales prospects, potential business partners, and job candidates on the Web by searching summaries of 24 million business people via a database developed and powered by Eliyon Technologies.
Business.com's "People Search" provides business users looking to connect with fellow professionals summaries of individuals based on data compiled from numerous sources on the Internet. This new service delivers a much more focused experience than traditional search engines, returning only detailed information relevant to finding business people. Business.com's "People Search" provides available contact information for professionals found on the Web including employer, job title, work and educational history, and email address. Results are precise, easy-to-view and linked to all source documents used to prepare them.
The technology behind Business.com's "People Search continually scans millions of corporate websites, press releases, electronic news services, SEC filings and other online sources so the information provided is always up-to-date and accurate.
"We are always striving to improve upon our search capabilities so our users can find exactly what they need as quickly as possible," says Jake Winebaum, CEO and founder of Business.com. "Finding people is a critical business task, and with the addition of the 'People Search' feature, we're now able to provide the who in addition to the what, where and how in business search."
"We are excited that Business.com's audience will now have quick access to Eliyon's business people search and anticipate that once they experience the quality of the information, it will become a reliable reference tool for business communication," said Gary Halliwell, president of Eliyon Technologies.
"People Search" is available today on Business.com.
About Business.com
Business.com is the search engine designed and organized strictly for business. It provides professionals easy access to business products, services, companies, news and other business information to help them get their jobs done more efficiently.
Founded in 1999 by eCompanies, Business.com was originally funded by major strategic investors including Pearson, Reed Business Information, and McGraw Hill. Still privately-held, Business.com added Benchmark Capital as a preferred stockholder in 2004.
Today, Business.com serves the needs of more than three million business searchers each month across a wide array of industries and job functions. Business.com reaches another 32 million through its distribution network which includes partners such as Forbes.com, Businessweek.com, Inc.com, FastCompany, and Internet.com.
With a proprietary taxonomy and classification system consisting of over 65,000 business categories, the company is a leader in the next generation of search. By categorizing business results in an intuitive order and filtering out unrelated consumer content, Business.com is able to anticipate the needs of professionals and allows them to easily locate relevant business information. For more information, please visit www.business.com.
About Eliyon Technologies
Eliyon Technologies uses next-generation search technologies to automatically create up-to-date individual profiles of business professionals and companies. Eliyon is the most current and complete source of information on professionals and businesses in the U.S., combining industry-leading proprietary search, content creation and presentation technologies. As of November 2004, the Eliyon database included 23 million profiles of business executives and mid-level managers, with more than 25,000 new ones added and 100,000 profiles updated daily.
Eliyon continuously crawls the Internet, automatically extracting information from more than 350 million publicly available news articles, press releases, company Web sites, and SEC filings published in the U.S. Its advanced technology then recognizes company and business professional data and extracts it. Eliyon is the first to take this type of data and integrate it to create comprehensive profiles of people, which users then search and use for recruiting, competitive intelligence, research and more.
Eliyon's customers range from executive search firms to 25% of the Fortune 100, including companies such as Oracle, Wachovia, IBM, Microsoft, Staples. Eliyon is privately held and based in Cambridge, MA.
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Anna Pignataro
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