PicoSearch Reaches Company Milestone by Surpassing 150,000 Sign Ups

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PICOSEARCH REACHES COMPANY MILESTONE BY SURPASSING
150,000 SIGN UPS

Leader in Hosted Search Services Gains Momentum with 40 Percent Increase in Sign Ups in Past Year

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - June 22, 2005 - PicoSearch, the pioneer and market leader in advanced hosted search services, today announced the company has surpassed 150,000 sign ups, marking a forty percent increase in sign ups from last year. The company attributes its low cost, maintenance-free approach, along with its sophisticated, patented search technology as key reasons for its continued growth.

PicoSearch was a pioneer of the search market in 1998 when it introduced its hosted search engine technology, allowing any business or organization to quickly, easily and affordably incorporate search capabilities to their web site without the need to purchase additional hardware or software. Today, PicoSearch supports millions of searches per day for businesses of all sizes across a broad range of industries. From government organizations and educational institutions to media companies and Internet retailers, PicoSearch helps organizations offer a quick and easy way for web site visitors to find the information they need.

"We are thrilled that PicoSearch continues to gain momentum and win new customers with its unique, low cost, no maintenance approach to hosted site search," said Carl Schroeder, director of search technologies, PicoSearch. "Whether as a search box on one site, or serving as a mini web portal for many web pages, PicoSearch helps businesses and organizations offer an effective search tool to direct site visitors to the information they need, enhance the user experience, and encourage repeat visits."

PicoSearch’s high-capacity server-farm architecture ensures continuous operation to keep customers’ hosted engines up and running 24 hours a day. Additionally, a team of expert engineers in hardware, software, and computational linguistics maintain the company’s successful track record of quality support and customer satisfaction.

Following are but a few comments by satisfied PicoSearch customers:

"The National Security Archive offers an extensive online archive of declassified government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. With PicoSearch, we have the ability to index everything, including PDFs and specialized files, enabling us to provide the public with a valuable tool to search through the entire online catalog of information. PicoSearch’s fully customizable options make it easy to suit our needs, and its usage reports and analytics tools provide useful information for monitoring site traffic and making enhancement decisions." - Michael Evans, Analyst/Web Designer, The National Security Archive at George Washington University

"The AIDS Project Los Angeles web site provides the community a wide range of information about HIV/AIDS policy, prevention and services. What is especially useful about PicoSearch is its ability to index PDF documents in addition to web pages. This enables our site visitors to find the most relevant information they need quickly and easily. The online administrative panel also allows us to control which areas of the site to make searchable, and I appreciate the automatic re-indexing feature. PicoSearch has proven to be a fast, easy and reliable search service for our organization." - Gregory Freeman, Web Administrator, AIDS Project Los Angeles

"My organization is a membership association for ophthalmologists. Since launching our site in 1997, I've been trying to find a way to give our members search access to the archives. I tried other search programs, but they were designed for people with their own servers and were not customizable to fit my needs. PicoSearch allows users to search password-protected documents, search other data formats such as Word and PDF documents, and produces easy to use results. It also gives me control to limit the scope of search on demand. It does everything I need and more." - Michael S. Duncan, Executive Director, Texas Ophthalmological Association

About PicoSearch
PicoSearch is the pioneer and market leader in advanced hosted search services for quickly, easily and cost-effectively integrating search capabilities into any web site. PicoSearch’s patented technology offers an affordable, no maintenance, high-quality approach to site search without the need to purchase or install additional hardware or software equipment. PicoSearch gives businesses and Internet retailers of all sizes a fast and easy way to incorporate effective search capabilities into any web site. PicoSearch allows full control over searchable pages and additional search analytics tools to monitor customer traffic, allowing businesses to make more informed decisions and ensure site visitors are directed to the most accurate, relevant information. For more information please contact 1-617-547-4020 or visit http://www.picosearch.com/contactus.html.

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