RELATED SYMBOLS: (AVTAF)(MSFT)(CMGI)
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jun 5, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- AltaVista Company,
the premier knowledge resource on the Internet at www.altavista.com, and a
majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMGI), today announced
that MSN has selected AltaVista Search technologies to provide full-text search
functionality for double-byte languages throughout Asian countries, including
Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. Terms of the agreement
were not disclosed.
AltaVista's search technology will offer customers fast, relevant search results
across more than 30 languages including double-byte languages such as Chinese,
Japanese and Korean, enabling global companies such as Microsoft to handle
nearly any information type. As the only scalable search technology able to
support Asian languages, AltaVista will provide searchers with results in their
native languages with access to more than 350 million Web pages, one of the
largest indices of the Internet.
"MSN is committed to delivering the best search engine to enable consumers to
find the most relevant results," said Bill Bliss, general manager of MSN Search
at Microsoft Corp. "By using AltaVista to supplement the results of the MSN
proprietary search engine, MSN Search will deliver the best results to consumers
in Asia, another step toward delivering the Everyday Web vision."
AltaVista's Internet Search Service provides fresh and relevant information on
the Web. Its products and services are fully scalable and flexible for
customized integration into e-commerce, portal and global enterprise Web sites.
"Information-rich companies that are serious about globalization are
increasingly turning to AltaVista," said Dan Stickel, vice president and general
manager for AltaVista Search and Business Solutions. "Our history of innovation
and experience with some of the world's most-visited Web sites is unmatched."
About AltaVista Business Solutions
AltaVista Business Solutions licenses industry-leading AltaVista search engine
products and hosted services to e-commerce companies, portals and global
enterprises. AltaVista search technology is one of the fastest, most reliable
and most scalable search tools for Web businesses. AltaVista Business Solutions
has more than 850 customers worldwide. Additional information is available on
the AltaVista Business Solutions Web site at www.solutions.altavista.com.
AltaVista Company is the premier knowledge resource on the Internet at
www.altavista.com. Building on its strong search heritage and patented
technology, AltaVista unlocks the vast Internet to provide the richest, most
relevant information access across multiple dimensions, including: Web pages,
shopping, up-to-the-minute news, live audio and video, and community resources.
AltaVista offers informative services including the multi-dimensional AltaVista
Search, pure Web page Raging Search (www.raging.com) from AltaVista, AltaVista
Shopping.com, AltaVista Live! personalized portal, and AltaVista Free Internet
Access. AltaVista is a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc., Andover,
Mass. AltaVista is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.
NOTE: AltaVista is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Shopping.com, Smart is Beautiful and AltaVista Free Access are trademarks of
AltaVista Company or its affiliates. Microsoft, MSN and product names mentioned
herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective
companies.
This release contains forward-looking statements which address a variety of
subjects including, for example, the expected benefits of the agreement between
AltaVista and MSN, the expected interoperability of the products and
technologies of AltaVista and MSN and the expected functionality of AltaVista
Search in Asia. The following important factors and uncertainties, among others,
could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these
forward-looking statements: AltaVista's products and technologies may not
successfully interoperate with the technologies and products of MSN; AltaVista
may experience difficulties integrating technologies, operations and personnel
of recent acquisitions, AltaVista's growth depends upon continued and increased
demand for and market acceptance of AltaVista's web sites; and increased
competition and technological changes in the markets in which AltaVista competes
For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer
to CMGI's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including CMGI's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.
SOURCE AltaVista Company
CONTACT: Aimee Brainard of Applied Communications, 415-365-0222, ext.
281, or abrainard@appliedcom.com, for AltaVista Company; or Molly Ingle of
AltaVista Company, 650-389-3781, or molly.ingle@av.com
URL: solutions.altavista.com
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