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RELEASE – Fiducité Announces Advanced Web Search and Navigation Tools, Also adds new, lower cost, entry-level subscription terms Designed for use by industry professionals in investment and market research, the Fiducité toolset features an extremely intuitive and easy-to-use interface. The main components of the toolset are a very powerful search engine, the industry's largest and most complete web site directory, and a multi-gigabyte content data base derived by crawling the directory web sites. In addressing the client "self-service" side of its research business (the company also performs rapid turnaround "on-demand" research for clients), Fiducite has released this latest version after six months of rigorous testing by the company's own in-house research staff and selected initial beta users. As one initial user, Nat Guild of Short Alert Research LLC, explained "These tools are ready for prime time, no question about it!! I use them every day in my own equity and market modeling research. They are a snap to use, and there's no software to install locally - I just use my web browser to get at the entire toolset." The centerpiece of the toolset is the powerful search engine, which is based on a very fast, state-of-the-art meta search product called the Vivísimo Clustering Engine™. Because this product relies on polling other search engines, it enables a very comprehensive search of the web in real time, with only the most relevant results returned. Search results are displayed in both relevance ranked order as well as in key sub-topic category groupings. The way it works is simple in theory and extremely powerful in practice. Users' queries are captured once and then farmed out to more than a dozen public search engines. Additional private search engines can also be added to the search engine list, including those focused on an organization's own internal content or on copyrighted content sources which the client is permitted to access. In seconds after the query is submitted to the search engine list, the returned results are consolidated and then automatically ranked and organized into categories that are intelligently selected from the phrases contained in the search results themselves. This means that the categories will be as up-to-date and fresh as the content itself. All results are presented in a familiar and intuitive folders-style interface, with easy category and document drill down. The other components of the toolset - the directory and the large internal document database - are designed to supplement professional research needs. The directory currently includes over 14,000 certified financial services web sites and is growing continuously. Every site has been individually observed and classified to ascertain that it is part of the financial services industry and has been placed correctly in our organization type, line of business, and geographical taxonomies. This directory is a useful research tool in its own right, and is also the basis for a valuable internal document data base. This database includes over 10 million research reports, SEC filings, white papers, academic studies, congressional testimonies, statistical tables, conference presentations and other valuable resources. Searches against this internal document data base return only relevant documents from certified industry sources, not all of which are available through public search engines. In recognition of the increasing demand for these types of tools by
smaller research houses, Fiducite also announced a new "self-service
only" subscription model. Under this new model, clients interested
only in the toolset (and not in custom on-demand research reports from
Fiducite) can select a quarterly or annual subscription plan for as
low as $2000 per quarter. This tools-only subscription plan includes
unlimited access for up to three concurrent users to the search engine, the global
directory, and the document database. Free one-week trail licenses can be
made available to qualified potential customers by contacting Fiducite
at 978-369-4211 ext. 21 or by registering at the company's site site
at www.fiducite.com/register_online.htm.
Complete information on all the company's service plans may be found
at http://www.fiducite.com/products_&services.htm. For additional information, contact Fiducité Public Relations at 307 Main St., Concord, MA 01742 USA, +1-978-369-4211 ext. 21 |
