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Microcap & Penny Stocks : WCTI (Wordcruncher Internet) Search Engine of the future. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daevious who wrote (4064)	2/24/1999 8:06:00 PM
From: Tom Daly	Respond to of 5300

To All: The following is from the RB board & is an e-mail response to "stockwatchk"'s e-mail to Dan Lunt. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Email from Dan Lunt!!! Here's something different to talk about. My question follows Mr. Lunt's response. (I've substituted my RB board name in the text.) Stockwatchk- Thanks for the message. This past week has been harrowing from the investor's point of view and I am very sympathetic. It has also been very valuable to us in terms of helping us understand what we need to tweak on the user interface. We feel very good about what we're seeing and expect to be able to move forward quite rapidly as soon as we get a couple of things fixed. With regard to our financing, there is usually some dilution with a private placement financing deal. Fortunately, the price of our stock just prior to the closing of the financing helped us put together a very favorable deal for us and for the rest of our investors. We also feel very good about the prospects for the group that put the funding together for us. In short, I believe it was a win-win for everyone involved. I appreciate your level-headedness. While there is virtually nothing I can do about the day-to-day volatility in the market right now, I'm determined to build this into a solid business and I'm optimistic about the future. Thanks again, Dan Stockwatchk wrote: > Mr. Lunt: > > I still love the SpyHop site and can see the possibilities for the future. > Multi-lingual searches will be in demand, as well as "in context" queries. > I just hope WordCruncher can deliver this concept into reality. Right now, > there seems to be a lot of volatility in the price of WCTI. Some have viewed > the financing with skepticism, ie. giving too sweet a deal to a venture > capital company and in the process diluting shares. Others have simply taken > advantage of the recent run-up in price by "shorting" the stock. I am an > investor for the long term. While on paper I have seen a loss, I'm sure > yours' has been much, much greater. > > Much of the investment to date has been because of your past reputation. > While I personally do not know you, I believe you to be honest and > intelligent. Looking forward, I hope your energy and dedication will result > in such a way that would benefit us all. > > Sincerely, > > Stockwatchk

To: Daevious who wrote (4064)	2/24/1999 10:52:00 PM
From: GOPbabe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5300

Thanks D!! :)) Tom, thank you for posting that email from Dan Lunt!! And Greg, thank you for your words of support. I didn't mean to offend anyone and my remarks were not directed at the majority of posters on the board. In regard to macintosh, let me say it probably kills Steve Jobs that I, a true mac addict, am also a member of the Republican party! That being said let me move on to WCTI.;> I find this search engine software by Autonomy very interesting. The following info is from autonomy.com << Autonomy has the only technology capable of providing you with a complete infrastructure for the automated handling of large volumes of information for Knowledge Management or New Media markets. Autonomy provides: * Categorization * Hyperlinking * Search * Delivery * Alerting * Fusion * Personalization * Profiling * Visualization>>>>> <<< Autonomy provides *search** that allows you to describe in natural language exactly what you want delivered to you. Our technology enables the delivery of the right information to the right person at the right time - automatically. >>> and from their knowledge management area: <<< In addition to the automatic sorting and tagging of information, Agentware enables the dynamic personalization of digital information by monitoring and identifying each employee's area of expertise. This is derived automatically by looking at their areas of interest as well as the ideas contained in the documents and email messages they generate. Having identified an employee's area of expertise, Agentware can then recommend colleagues with similar interests or relevant experience, identify duplication of effort and encourage greater collaboration. Knowledge managers and developers of corporate intranets, including such companies as Lucent, Barclays Bank, Shell International, Semi-Tech, Novell and Royal Mail, are all using Autonomy's Agentware products for knowledge management. Autonomy's Knowledge Management products include: * Knowledge Server * Knowledge Update * Knowledge Builder >> My first question is really asking for a confirmation. After reading some of this, am I correct in saying that this software is only used to "automate" categorizing info??? Or is this software also capable of "search" which would compete with Cruncher? 2) If it does have "search" capability would that capability be similar to the finder? (Someone had posted on this board that Cruncher could be incorporated in Novell's software as a "finder". As I am a bit confused on what autonomy's full capabilities are, I also am curious because Novell is a client of autonomy and also has presence on SpyHop which leads me to wonder if it is it possible the two technologies (Cruncher and Autonomy) could team up. I know these questions should be answered in Search Engines for Dummies... ;> When it comes to the back end, I have absolutely no expertise. So any help in sorting this mess out for me is greatly appreciated! Thanks to anyone who wants to "dive" in on this. Merylee