IntelliSeek Offers First Look At BullsEye Internet Search Tool

Comprehensive sofware intelligently searches, manages and tracks information on the Web

BullsEye, an innovative desktop tool, offers state of the art Web Search capabilities using Intelligent Agents, exhaustive information management and unparalleled intelligent information tracking in a single application to help users cope with information overload from the Web.

IntelliSeek, Inc., a pioneering provider of information discovery, management and sharing technologies, announced the beta availability of its flagship product, BullsEye from its web site <http://www.intelliseek.com/>. The result of two years of research, BullsEye is the first tool in the industry that is designed to solve the problem of managing "information overload" from the Web.

What is BullsEye?
BullsEye is a unique desktop application incorporating a flexible, user friendly interface that allows users to:

• Find relevant information easily and comprehensively from anywhere on the Web saving tremendous surfing and searching time
• Manage and share all information sources of one's interest on an ongoing basis

Track information sources in an automated fashion to deliver new and relevant information only as needed or as important changes are discovered, avoiding repetitive, wasteful manual steps

BullsEye Innovations in Finding Information 

• Intelligent search agents in BullsEye offer single-click, transparent access to dozens of specialized search categories, spanning hundreds of searchable information sources -- over 300 in the initial release -- on the Internet, using IntelliSeek's revolutionary Guided Search technology.
• Through highly specialized search agents such as "Web Search", "News Finder", "People Talk", "Health Answers", "Software Finder" and others, users can search the whole World-Wide Web of information, up-to-date News archives, News groups and Mailing List archives, Discussion databases, Health databases, Software collections, Product Reviews, Books, and much more.
• BullsEye's Rapid Information Discovery Engine (RIDE) embeds Verity's award winning Search '97 knowledge retrieval and linguistic analysis technologies to allow users to rapidly discover relevant information from the Web. In addition to relevance ranking of documents, elimination of duplicate documents, mismatched documents and dead links, the RIDE also enables extensive information analysis, filtering, and unlimited "off-line" drill down (refinement) of searches. This offers a state of the art "web information mining" capability, saving tremendous time and network traffic.
• All Intelligent search agents in BullsEye offer an intuitive query interface, intelligently customized to the search context, with support for advanced Boolean queries, including a visual Boolean query builder, numerous query assistants like Thesaurus, built-in Spell Checker, Sounds-like word list, etc.
• BullsEye offers modern information visualization tools to view results (documents) by site type, by relevance or in concept clusters. Other useful visualization capabilities include automatic document summarization, live highlighting and active linkage of query keywords in the retrieved documents using an embedded web browser and much more.

"Information discovery is an ongoing process, not a static event. The search is just the initial step in the overall process of information discovery, yet all current search tools seem to stop right there! Organizing and managing useful information once it is found is a critical component to the overall search process", said Sundar Kadayam, Chief Technology Officer of IntelliSeek. "Whether used for professional, business or home use, BullsEye offers a complete set of information management capabilities that facilitate the lookup and sharing of previously discovered documents and links", he added.

With BullsEye users can: 

• Organize the information found from the Search or Track process
• Go back and look at the information retrieved in the past (Reports)
• Lookup and re-use searches conducted in the past (Search History and Favorite Searches) 
• Manage the Tracked information requests, 
• Organize and manage Bookmarks across browsers, etc., using the familiar Windows Explorer style user interface.

BullsEye Innovations in Tracking Information 

BullsEye offers unique InfoSense technology which uncovers new or changed information relevant to the user over time using a transparent, autonomous, background operation. With InfoSense, BullsEye essentially permits the entire world of information available through the Web to be routinely monitored:

• Any designated web page or bookmark can be tracked for changes 
• Any search can be performed repeatedly for new results 
• Automatic notification of relevant changes is provided via e-mail, pager, sound, etc.
• Information is delivered dot on the schedule specified by the user using avery versatile scheduler 
• The user may choose to be notified only if newer information is found for a given request, and additionally control information downloads for off-line browsing

BullsEye brings together in a single integrated desktop application, functionality that is typically found in numerous types of software packages - Bookmarking / Organizing tools, desktop/meta Search tools, Off-line-browsing tools, Personalized News tools and many more.

BullsEye is targeted at anyone with the desire to harness the growing information resources the Web has to offer. Specifically, strategic planners, professional researchers and knowledge workers within corporations or at home, will find BullsEye to be an indispensable tool to find exactly what they want, manage the information they find and keep abreast of new and changing information of their interest on the Web.

"I've used other Internet search products. I can safely say that this is one of the best - if not the best - and clearly stands out from the rest. What makes BullsEye unique is the power of its analysis features, and the quality of the results delivered, while still being easy to understand and use", said Dr. Charlie Bender, Director, Ohio Supercomputer Center, an early user of the product.

The initial release of BullsEye is expected to be publicly available from a wide variety of sources around May 31, 1998. 

Who is IntelliSeek? 
Founded in May 1997, IntelliSeek is a privately held software company. IntelliSeek merged with Digital InfoWorks, Ltd in 1997, a company that had been working on state of the art information discovery, management and sharing technologies since 1995. IntelliSeek's continued mission is to create software solutions that enable users to harness, manage and exploit digital information distributed across corporate intranets as well as the global Internet.