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| November 3, 2010 |
PicoSearch enhances hosted search services for SMBs
AutoComplete speeds site visitor searches, resulting in improved marketing. Search services leader PicoSearch, from SAS, continues to enhance its hosted search application, helping organizations ensure their site visitors find the content they need "on time all the time." PicoSearch brings leading-edge, hosted search capabilities to businesses enhancing site experience and improving the relevance of information. (Read Full Press Release)
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| April 6, 2009 |
PicoSearch Announces New Search Highlighting Feature
PicoSearch's new Hit Highlighting feature provides PicoSearch webmasters
with an easy-to-use, customizable tool that helps end-users find
specific search terms on a web page. When end-users search for a
specific word or words on PicoSearch-powered websites, they will be able
to easily navigate through the pages of that site to find exactly where
those terms can be found. (Read Full Press Release)
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| September 29, 2008 |
PicoSearch Announces New Direct Search Feature
PicoSearch's new Direct Search feature enables PicoSearch programmers to
tailor their search results to point users to a specific Web page on
their site when they query certain terms. E-commerce shoppers can
circumvent the original search results list and will be automatically
redirected to the appropriate page. (Read Full Press Release)
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| June 7, 2006 |
PicoSearch Hosted Search Service Enhances Steinway & Sons Website
PicoSearch, the pioneer in advanced hosted search services, today
announced a service agreement with Steinway & Sons Pianos.
PicoSearch delivers an easy to manage, cost-effective, customized hosted
website search tool to Steinway, a company that has been producing the
world’s finest pianos for more than 150 years. (Read Full Press Release)
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| July 11, 2005 |
PicoSearch Launches New Hosted Search Service for Large Scale Internet Retail and Enterprise Web Sites
PicoSearch's new Platinum Service Plan supports larger websites with
greater control over searchable content. The plan offers optional
categorization and taxonomy management features to offer quick and easy
navigation of unlimited web pages, directing site visitors to the most
relevant information. For example, if an online retailer offers a range
of electronic products, it can use PicoSearch to allow customers to
quickly filter what they are interested in. Shoppers may start with a
general product list, and after making an initial selection, they can
choose from a sub list of items in that selected category. (Read Full Press Release)
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| June 22, 2005 |
PicoSearch Reaches Company Milestone by Surpassing 150,000 Sign Ups
PicoSearch gains significant momentum during the years 2004 and 2005,
experiencing a 40 percent increase in new customer sign ups. Low cost,
maintenance free approach, and sophisticated search technology are the
factors for PicoSearch's successful continued growth. When PicoSearch
introduced its hosted search engine technology to the market in 1998,
the company was a pioneer in the field. Seven years later, PicoSearch
builds on its goal to help organizations offer a quick, easy, and
affordable way for web site visitors to find the information they need.
(Read Full Press Release)
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| March 5, 2003 |
PicoSearch Reaches 100,000 Customers
PicoSearch reaches benchmark 100,000 sign ups in just five year span
since company inception, revealing a broad range of industries and
enterprises taking advantage of PicoSearch's unique hosted search engine
technology. PicoSearch's diverse customer base includes small
businesses, academic institutions, media companies, Internet retailers,
community banks and individuals.
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| November 30, 2001 |
PicoSearch Awarded U.S. Patent 6,651,065 for Search and Index Hosting System
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recognizes a continuation of PicoSearch's original patent, filed in 1998.
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| June 19, 2000 |
PicoSearch Announces Full Boolean Syntax Support for Hosted Site Searching
PicoSearch makes searches more accurate and thorough by implementing
full feature support of Boolean expressions such as: AND, OR, and NOT.
These logical operators allow a user to expand, clarify and optimize
search functionality.
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| March 22, 2000 |
PicoSearch Announces MP3 Indexing Support for Web Sites
PicoSearch continues its commitment to expanding file format support by
enabling users to search popular audio files known as MP3's. MP3
Indexing allows users to locate desired MP3's through song title, artist
and album queries. For example, if a music distributor decides to
advertise its inventory online to expand its market, PicoSearch helps
customers find, research, preview, and perhaps purchase the specific
track or artist they are seeking.
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| March 9, 2000 |
PicoSearch Announces New Advances in File Format Indexing for Web Sites
In an effort to provide convenience and flexibility, PicoSearch adds an
extensive list of supported file formats for its search outputs.
PicoSearch now operates with the following file formats: Portable
Document Format (PDF), Adobe Postscript, Rich Text File (RTF), Microsoft
Word, Microsoft Excel and Macromedia Flash.
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| November 11, 1999 |
PicoSearch Visitors Span Over 25 Countries in 11 Languages
Users across the globe taking advantage of PicoSearch's language
flexibility demonstrate a rising and open international market for
hosted search engines.
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| October 21, 1999 |
PicoSearch Hits One Million Monthly Page Views
In the year since its inception, PicoSearch obtains a significant
measurement of success: nearly three million unique visitors visit
www.picosearch.com per month. Of these visitors, one million view
PicoSearch's company profile and discover the hosted search engine
technology.
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| August 15, 1998 |
PicoSearch.com Website Launched and First Customer Acquired
PicoSearch is formed and pioneers advanced hosted search services for
small to medium web sites. PicoSearch establishes its headquarters in
Boston, Massachusetts and launches the first version of its website.
First customer acquired.
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| August 6, 1998 |
PicoSearch Awarded U.S. Patent 6,336,116 for Search and Index Hosting System
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recognizes PicoSearch's
invention as a system designed to facilitate the hosting of
site-specific searching. PicoSearch is credited for developing a system
for searching a hosted database, indexing database documents,
identifying indexed documents based on user-specified data, and
outputting such documents through a simple sign up process requiring no
software to install.
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