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5.5.2004
Grokker
2.1 Offers a Glimpse into the Future of Desktop Search for its Growing
Customer Base
SAUSALITO, Calif. – May 5, 2004 – Groxis, Inc., the leader
in visual search software, announced today the full public release
of Grokker™ 2.1 and its long-anticipated Google plug-in. Freely
available to all Grokker 2.1 customers, the Google plug-in provides
Groxis’ customers with unprecedented visual access to Google’s
award-winning search results.
The Google plug-in is Groxis’ first search partner to leverage
the newly developed information retrieval framework now available
in Grokker 2.1. Groxis is quietly advancing its core technology to
radically improve the power of desktop search. The new framework in
2.1 requires highly relevant search results in order to produce the
best visual search maps with Grokker. Google‘s Beta Web API
handily met the strict requirements. As a result, Groxis developed
a special plug-in that enables users to view the Google search results
in prominently designated Google-specific Grokker visual maps.
“We are very excited about Grokker 2.1, our strongest release
to date. We’ve increased application speed by as much as 200%,
and noticeably improved the precision of the Grokker visual mapping,”
said Jean-Michel Decombe, CTO and co-founder of Groxis. “But
we’re not stopping there. The innovation has really just begun
at Groxis. We’re now working deep below the surface of visual
information management. This will lead us beyond web search as we
see it today, and will set the stage for some very surprising products
yet to come from Groxis later this year, “ he added.
Groxis also highlighted its expanding customer base and its increasingly
complimentary positioning amongst the field of leading web search
companies. The company confirmed that the search market as a whole
(customers and search providers) is clearly evolving and becoming
increasingly more committed to leveraging Grokker technology in a
variety of new ways.
“Our mission is to make information and search results
easier to use. The problem is not at all with search engines per se;
it is with the tools we use to access them. Google does an outstanding
job of finding the world’s information, and retrieving highly
relevant search results. Grokker makes it easy to do more with those
results, more collaboratively and intuitively, “ stated R.J.
Pittman, CEO and co-founder of Groxis. “For example, when was
the last time you emailed someone 2,000 URLs from a search result?
Though a seemingly nonsensical task, Grokker customers have been saving
and sharing visual searches for years. And our new customers are discovering
this everyday. Savable, shareable, deeper web searches that make more
information more useful to more people,” Pittman added.
Since first previewing its technology in October 2002, Groxis has
received accolades from industry watchers, product reviewers, and
customers. Grokker 2 has already won appeal with educators, students,
and consumer researchers where there has been a growing demand for
applications that can help simplifying the process of researching
on the Web. The result of a yearlong dialog with early customers and
industry experts, Grokker 2 has been significantly improved to make
research on the Web easier, more enjoyable, and more efficient for
everyone. Educators in both the K-12 and higher education market have
already pronounced Grokker 2 an essential project-based learning tool
for 2004.
About Groxis
Groxis is a pioneer in visual information software technology and
the creator of the first breed of Graphical Information Interface
(GII) software called Grokker™. The Grokker software makes information
research easy, intuitive, and sensible. One software platform for
every person, profession, and pursuit. Grokker information maps are
an innovative information currency that radically improves the way
people, groups, and organizations discover, organize, and convey large
amounts of information. A privately held company backed by leading
venture investors, Groxis is based in Sausalito, California.
About Google, Inc.
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people
around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford
Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web
property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising
program, which is the largest and fastest growing in the industry,
provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing
the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon
Valley with offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. For
more information, visit www.google.com.
Google and the Google logo are trademarks of Google Inc.
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