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Internet Search Engine: is There Any Innovation Left ?- Reportlinker Vp to Speak at Online Information Conference 2007

Nicolas — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:40:00 +0100

Ubiquick SAS – operator of the award-winning search engine Reportlinker.com – announced today that its Vice President Nicolas BOMBOURG will be speaking at the Online Information Conference to be held at Olympia Conference Centre in London, December 6.

The conference is part of the Online Information Exhibition, Online Information 2007, the world's leading event for online content and information management solutions.

Produced by Incisive Media Events, the conference includes a session titled “Search, Is there any innovation left ? " with Nicolas Bombourg part of the panel of expert speakers.

The panel will explore the future of search engines, how search engines Have adapted to web 2.0 and how the next generation Internet threatens general search engines.

As co-founder of Reportlinker.com, Nicolas Bombourg was among the first to recognize the value of Web 3.0 search engines. During the session, he will present a paper titled "Web 3.0, from open access content to quality business information".

Sharing his insights as a pioneer and current entrepreneur, Nicolas will discussed how new search engines such as Ubiquick's recently unveiled Reportlinker.com will help information professionals to be more efficient.

Nicolas’s presentation will focus on strategies and tools to easily identify and access valuable open access content to serve business research needs.

Joining Nicolas Bombourg on the panel will be Jayne Dutra, Information architect at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA (USA); and Tom Reamy, Chief Knowledge Architect and founder of KAPS Group (USA).

The session begins at 2 p.m. GMT, and will be moderated by Adrian Dale, Managing Partner of Creatifica Associates (UK).

July : More articles on Reportlinker success

Nicolas — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:19:00 +0200

You will find here two more articles on our new service. The the enclosed and written in French, give a detailled presentation of our company, our boss and the award we just get. The second one is an article from 01.net, written by Bertrand Braux. Betrand explains here how our technology is working, and gives more informations about our market research search engine added value. You can also access here some statistics about public domain reports available. Click here to read it (in French once more !)

An Interview of Reportlinker Sales Manager

Nicolas — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:18:00 +0200

The french magazine "L'entreprise" published in June a complete file on the French web entrepreneur. I was interwiewed, and presented our vision of the future of the search engine. Everything is enclosed here (in french).

June : articles on Reportlinker IE Club award

Nicolas — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:32:00 +0200

More than 80 companies applied for the 2007 IE Club award. Among them, 6 received an award.

The awards are run by the IE Club, an association uniting all businesses based on information and communication technology, including services, solutions and products. The club promotes a pragmatic approach to encouraging better relations between innovative SMEs and large corporations. Florence Ribes, IE Club member, recently gave an interview explaining the organisation objectives (In french only).

And we are really proud to have been choosen as "Best Hope 2007", in the Services category.

Le Monde Informatique and Neteco.com give precious details on the IE club 2007 awards, and the criteria on which candidates have been assessed.

Usinenouvelle.com focus on the three companies getting Best Hope Awards : - Ubiquick, with Reportlinker the public reports vertical search engine, on the Service category - Quescom, IP network telephony solutions for Enterprises, on the hardware category - Sparus, vendor of mobile device management software, in the software category

Reportlinker has been awarded “Best Hope 2007” by the IE-Club

Nicolas — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:30:00 +0200

Reportlinker, the vertical search engine, dedicated to open access market research reports, won the prize “Best Hope 2007”, in the Services category. 30 projects have been selected by the IE-Club jury, among 120 companies, to become part of the “ITech-economy” leaders.

Reportlinker, launched on March 2007, has perfectly matched the criteria requested to be distinguished: be innovative, get the capacity to impact the international market and be able to lead this market.

The IE-Club is a French meeting place for innovative companies from the « ITech-economy ». The goal of the IE-Club is to promote those companies and to disperse best practices trough events like this awards ceremony.

About Reportlinker Reportlinker is a vertical web 3.0 search engine dedicated to open access market research reports. Facing the general public tools promoting merchant content, boosted by search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, Reportlinker provides accurate business information: more than 1,2 million reports, published by trusted sources (governments, embassies, national statistics agencies, trade unions…). The professional research engine also includes in its index many results from the deep web. In a few words, Reportlinker helps information professionals to improve efficiency and reduce costs by organizing and facilitating search for open access industry reports

An Interview of Reportlinker CEO

Nicolas — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:24:00 +0200

Decideurstv interviewed Benjamin Carpano last week. Ben gives its vision of Reportlinker, explains here how our search engine works, where the reports comes from, how to access the service... Interview is enclosed, for French speaker only. By the way, Horizon Entrepreneurs presents on their blog an interesting summary of the interview.

French bloggers give their opinion on Reportlinker

Nicolas — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:58:00 +0200

Last week, several bloggers gave their opinion on our service.

Chauffeur de Buzz tried our tool, and considers that the open access market research reports we propose on Retailing and Food Industry are really interesting
Marketing Digital judges that our vertical search engine will allow information professionals to increase the efficiency of their research on the Internet
Adscriptor is a blog dedicated to vertical search engine. For him, results are evidentiary. He also added comments on our search technology, which he compares to Google CSE. This is not my point of view, and I know Reportlinker very well !! Jean Marie forgot to speak about the semantic dimension of our search engine.

Out in house technology allows :

Deep web crawling and indexing technology (5 years of R&D with the support of ANVAR)
Full text and contextual search engine working on a distributed index of 1,2 Terra octets (6 engineers full time during 18 months)

JM Billaut gives its opinion on Reportlinker

Nicolas — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:43:00 +0200

Jean Michel Billaut founded "The Networking Company". As he follows and shares its passion for the Internet and Innovation through its blog, he wanted us to give more information about Web 3.0 and Vertical Search. We met Jean Michel after Capital IT. He received us last week. He was curious to understand how we manage to use semantic technologies to identify and classify open access industry reports. Everything is explained here : vision, mission, future features, strategy, digital content trends....for french speakers only !

Reportlinker has been Awarded Best Innov 2007 by Capital IT

Nicolas — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:28:00 +0200

Reportlinker is part of the companies' short-list selected by Capital IT, the marketplace for financing innovation in France.

21 innovations have been selected for their applications and uses that will affect the future, among 80 pre-selected innovations.

Reportlinker, launched one month ago, has perfectly matched the criteria requested to be distinguished:

- be innovative,

- get a consistent activity based on a business model

- get an existing product or service offer

- get the capacity to impact the market

- seek funding or industrial partnerships to feed company's growth.

Capital-IT is one of the most famous events in Europe to promote innovating companies. It has previously awarded companies like Kelkoo.

About Reportlinker

Reportlinker is a vertical web 3.0 search engine dedicated to open access market research reports. Facing the general public tools promoting merchant content, boosted by search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, Reportlinker provides accurate business information: more than 1,2 million reports, published by trusted sources (governments, embassies, national statistics agencies, trade unions...). The professional research engine also includes in its index many results from the deep web.

In a few words, Reportlinker helps information professionals to improve efficiency and reduce costs by organizing and facilitating search for open access industry reports.

Econtent gives his vision of Reportlinker

Ben — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:19:00 +0000

Econtent published in March 2007 an article on Reprtlinker's innovation. The magazine has a mission to clearly identify and explain emerging digital content trends, strategies, and resources. Econtent condiders that Reportlinker differentiation relies on its specialization in open access market research reports. Using this tool, users can search the long tail of free market research without the "noise of not so relevant merchant results". . Article can be found here.

Peter Suber gives his vision of Reportlinker

Ben — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:57:00 +0000

Peter Suber, Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, was the first to post an article on Reportlinker. Peter is publishing Open Access News (News from the open access movement). He considers that User can now search the long tail of free market research without the noise of not so relevant merchant results. The professional research engine also includes in its index many results from the deep web that are not even accessible through general search engines..... Article can be found here.

Reportlinker announces the first search engine dedicated to open access market research reports

Nicolas — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:39:00 +0200

Reportlinker is a vertical search engine dedicated to open access market research reports. On a single screen, it gathers more than 1,2 million reports, published by trusted sources (governments, embassies, national statistics agencies, trade unions…).

The inadequacy of general public tools when searching for open access industry information The launch of Reportlinker is related to a common matter: how to quickly find and access relevant information using general public tools? General public tools promote merchant content, boosted by search marketing (SM) and search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, making relevant open access information more difficult to find.

Reportlinker: the professional market research engine makes the difference Reportlinker differentiation relies on its specialization in open access market research reports. User can now search the long tail of free market research without the noise of not so relevant merchant results. The professional research engine also includes in its index many results from the deep web that are not even accessible through general search engines. More than 1,2 million public reports, published by trusted sources, are now available in just a few clicks.

Reportlinker helps information researcher to improve efficiency and reduce costs by organizing and facilitating search for open access industry reports

• Reducing noise with results 100% dedicated to market research information: More than 1,2 million documents and reports aggregated from 200,000 high quality public sources (governments, embassies, trade unions…)

• Hard to find documents gathered in one place Reportlinker facilitates search for hard to find open access industry reports by concentrating highly fragmented sources on a single screen. Most of them are not even indexed by well known search engines.

Who should subscribe to Reportlinker? Information professionals, decision makers and entrepreneurs who search for structured analysis, like market reports or strategic information regarding their industry. Reportlinker is a subscription based search engine available from EUR 249 / month (www.reporltinker.com).

About Reportlinker Reportlinker is powered by Ubiquick, a technology company which develops and markets industry vertical search tools since January 2001 to 85,000 clients world wide.

For more information: Reportlinker Benjamin Carpano bca@reportlinker.com 97 Rue Racine 69 100 Villeurbanne France Tel : +33 4 37 37 16 37 Fax : +33 4 37 37 15 56

http://www.reportlinker.com

Search Engine Watch gives its opinion on Reportlinker

Nicolas — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:33:00 +0200

With its specialisation on the SEM (Search Engine Marketing), Search ENgine Watch considers that Reportlinker "attempts to filter the results of regular engines that are imapct by SEM efforts". Relevant open access information are more difficult to find. Reportlinker brings its solution, dedicated to industry reports. Read the article here.