Thought you'd be interested in this Sy...The date is August 17, 2000.....This from the old go2net site, and Corporate Press Release will show the digeo, inc. relationship to CHTR, GNET and Vulcan Ventures. It also mentions the agreement to merge with INSP on July 26, 2000. Therefore, since the merger was underway, and we were led to believe that INSP/GNET would be part of digeo, inc. .....
WHERE IS THAT MENTIONED IN ANY press release from INSP, or CHTR, or Vulcan Ventures or digeo, inc. today????
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Contact:
Thomson H. Dam
President
StartEasy.com
(416) 755-1101
contact@starteasy.com
Steve Stratz
PR Manager - Search
Go2Net, Inc.
(206) 357-4104
steves@go2net.com
StartEasy.com Announces Adoption of Go2Net's Search Technology
StartEasy.com's Web Search Powered by Go2Net's Metasearch Engine Dogpile
TORONTO - (Aug. 17, 2000) - StartEasy.com (www.starteasy.com) today unveiled its privately-branded search solution, powered by Go2Net, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNET), one of the Internet's leading providers of applications and infrastructure technologies for both narrowband and broadband devices.
Available at www.starteasy.com, StartEasy's search capability is powered by Go2Net's Dogpile (www.dogpile.com), one of the leading metasearch services on the Web, and extends Go2Net's metasearch technology platform to an additional 300,000 unique users per month. Metasearch services enable Internet users to simultaneously query multiple individual search engines, presenting simple, comprehensive lists of results. Go2Net, which develops search technologies for its own network and for license to strategic partners, such as StartEasy, provides several options for companies' Web search needs.
"Search is consistently recognized as the critical application in Web usage," said Steve Goldberg, senior VP of Go2Net's Consumer Division. "Internet businesses without search are harder pressed to keep users at their sites. Go2Net's search technology is designed to help great sites like StartEasy meet this challenge."
"We determined that a powerful search tool would not only draw our visitors back, but complement our existing offerings," said Thomson H. Dam, president of StartEasy.com. "We decided to go with Go2Net's privately-branded metasearch technology, because of the company's leadership in the metasearch sector, and its reliable, efficient and accurate results."
For more information about Go2Net Search Solutions, visit go2net.com.
About StartEasy.com
StartEasy.com is your easy starting point to the World Wide Web. We offer a unique ranking system that lists participating websites according to their popularity level. This will help visitors to our site find the most popular sites on the web easily. Participating sites use our unique ranking codes to gain votes towards their placement on our list. The more votes a site receives, the higher they will be ranked. This will give you an orderly list of the web's most popular sites. Surfing the web has never been easier. In addition, we offer you a powerful search utility that queries all major engines and returns the results in one convenient place via our partnership with Go2Net. There is no longer the need to use multiple search engines to find what you are looking for on the web. Everything you need is here at StartEasy.com. Our mission statement is simple: to make your starting point on the web as easy as possible. Start surfing today, StartEasy.
About Go2Net, Inc.
Go2Net (http://www.go2net.com/) is one of the Internet's leading providers of Internet applications and infrastructure technologies for both narrowband and broadband devices. Go2Net licenses its applications and technologies to strategic partners such as Hasbro, National Discount Brokers, Allegiance Telecom and Digeo Broadband, a joint venture among Go2Net, Charter Communications and Vulcan Ventures. The company's HyperMart Network offers small business hosting and e-commerce solutions to more than one million members worldwide, while Go2Net's Authorize.Net payment-processing platform enables more than 80,000 merchants to securely process transactions online. The Go2Net Network features MetaCrawler, Silicon Investor, the HyperMart Network, PlaySite, Dogpile, and 100Hot.
On July 26, 2000, Go2Net signed a definitive agreement to merge with InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP), a leading global provider of cross-platform merchant and consumer infrastructure services.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including those relating to the company's ability to grow its user and advertiser base. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the company's limited operating history, the competitive environment in which the company competes, the early stage of the Web as an advertising and electronic commerce medium, the company's dependence on advertising, sponsorship and commerce revenues, the company's dependence on strategic relationships to drive traffic to its Web sites, consumer acceptance of the company's new products and services, the company's ability to develop and integrate new technologies and services into its existing services and into new platforms, such as broadband, and the increased use of the Web for commerce. More information about the potential factors that could affect the company's business and financial results is included in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 1999, and the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended December 31, 1999, March 31, 2000, and June 30, 2000, which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
