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(SIOUX FALLS, SD) --- BrightPlanet Corporation today
announced a major update to its free and public CompletePlanet portal
www.completeplanet.com, the largest, most comprehensive and authoritative
directory of searchable deep Web content databases on the Internet. CompletePlanet
is a single-access point to more than 70,000 databases – organized
into 600 subject categories users may browse through a directory structure
or search directly – that provides access to at least tens time
more valuable content than what is indexed or discoverable using conventional
search engines.
“We have significantly enhanced the new CompletePlanet
with the authoritative ranking of databases, hand placement of market
leading sources by category, and a new dynamic structure that allows quicker
updates to keep the listings fresh,” said Michael Bergman, BrightPlanet’s
CTO. “These enhancements reinforce BrightPlanet’s position
as the acknowledged experts of deep content on the Web,” he added.
Bergman noted that more than one-half of the CompletePlanet database listings
have an authoritativeness ‘score’ that causes the “cream
of content” to rank higher and that more than 6,000 databases have
been placed as identified market leaders.
“We created CompletePlanet as a public service,”
said Bill Shelander, CEO of BrightPlanet. “We encourage Internet
users concerned with comprehensive access to use CompletePlanet to discover
additional valuable sources for their queries. The public can discover
high-value portals developed by subject matter experts, official government
and corporate databases, and specialty search engines that they never
knew existed,” he added.
“This new release of CompletePlanet continues
our transition to consolidate BP’s software into a common code base
and to leverage our technology efforts in support of our enterprise customers,”
said Bergman. “CompletePlanet is in fact a direct use of our Automated
Information Portal™ product line and the database sources within
the site are exactly the same accessible via our Deep Query Manager™
analyst workbench,” he noted.
A major enabling technology for keeping CompletePlanet
current is BrightPlanet’s patent-pending abilities to automatically
identify and configure to searchable content databases. “The unfortunate
truth is that the Internet is a ‘dirty’ and ephemeral content
environment,” said Bergman. “Search pages change, links disappear,
new search functions are offered, and without automatic configuration
it is impossible to keep current at the numbers of databases we now manage,”
he emphasized.
Along with its comprehensive listing of deep content
searchable databases, CompletePlanet features links to the largest deep
Web sites, the 100 most popular search engines and databases, tips, tutorials
and guides to improve searching skills, and other valuable Web search
resources. “CompletePlanet is — by far — the most authoritative
source of deep content available on the Web,” said Shelander.
BrightPlanet Corporation coined the term “deep
Web” in a white paper published in July 2001, describing it as content
beyond the scope of spiders and crawlers. Most of the petabytes of data
is within publicly searchable databases that require a unique query for
content to be found.
“We use the same technology to help businesses
and other organizations integrate information from dozens or even hundreds
of their own databases. Our business tools can increase productivity and
obtain more valuable information by searching many databases and engines
simultaneously for desired content with a single query,” said Shelander.
“We then provide efficiency tools for knowledge workers to extract
intelligence from this information and then to report, share or deploy
these findings to others.”
BrightPlanet is a leader in unstructured and semi-structured
data (documents) deep federation™, or what is known in the business
community as Enterprise Information Integration (EII). The company combines
innovative ways to efficiently search, harvest and monitor all relevant
Internet and internal content (including the searchable databases of the
deep Web) using a single query, with unique technologies for discovery,
management, sharing, aggregation, qualification and classification of
this content. BrightPlanet’s customers include the intelligence
community, state and federal agencies, national associations and Fortune
2000 companies. Seven patents are pending for various aspects of BrightPlanet’s
automation, discovery and content management.
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BrightPlanet Corporation is a private venture-backed
company founded in 1999, though its technology legacy extends to the early
1980s. The company’s operations support center is located in Sioux
Falls, SD, and maintains offices in Washington, DC and Sunnyvale, CA.
For more information about BrightPlanet and the Deep
Query Manager™, visit its Web site at http://www.brightplanet.com,
or contact Thane Paulsen at BrightPlanet Corporation - 605.331.6012.
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