Chess on the front page
China Communications Corporation was founded by the same people who built
up the successful 3D display company "X3D" – and staged the gigantic ESPN
match between Garry Kasparov and X3D Fritz.
The
new company has been set up in partnership with China
Daily, one of the biggest Internet portals in China. The goal is to launch
the world’s most comprehensive online business database, which will be equipped
with a proprietary search engine to provide information on tens of millions
of businesses located throughout America, China and the rest of the world.
The search engine, which is currently being patented worldwide, uses Artificial
Intelligence technology to interpret the meaning of words and provide more
relevant and in-depth results than conventional searches.
X3D staged a number of spectacular chess events: apart from Kasparov vs X3D
Fritz the company hosted Kasparov
vs Deep Junior (2003) and Kasparov
vs Karpov (2002). ChinaCom is poised to continue in the same tradition,
and has already sponsored three big ACP
tournaments on the Playchess.com server. The next event is a September
2004 match in
New York between the French women's champion Almira Skripchenko and the
top-rated US player Irina Krush.
Watch a video
of the press conference with New York City Sports Commissioner Kenneth Podziba,
Almira Skripchenko and Irina Krush. The file size is 48 MB, so it is necessary
to have broadband in order to view the video.
ChinaCom and its search engine site, Acoona, have pledged to carry on the
tradition and stage many big chess events in the future. The company intends,
in cooperation with ChessBase, to put chess on the front page – specifically
of their giant B2B web portal.
Press release
China Daily Information Company Partners with China Communication Corp to
Develop Business Search Engine utilizing Artificial Intelligence.
New York, NY, 7/1/04 – China Daily Information Company, in a partnership
with China Communications Corp, is set to launch a new revolutionary business
Search Engine, utilizing a new and proprietary Artificial Intelligence Technology.
In an effort to continually perfect the user Search experience, China Communications
Corp has developed the portal www.Acoona.com,
delivering the most relevant business Search Engine results. The company has
filed a patent protecting this “Apparatus, Method and System for Artificial
Intelligence for Data Searching Applications”.
The company’s Search Engine technology operates by allowing the user to receive
more relevant, and in depth results. Using a complex algorithm that recalculates
the meaning of words, Acoona better understands the user’s search query. This
process yields search results in circumstances where no results may have been
achieved in the past. The “intuitive” engine will extract results with greater
proximity to the search criteria requested by the user. This advanced research
and corresponding patent applications are the first of its kind in the Search
Engine industry.
”Acoona’s Artificial Intelligence Technology will elevate Search Engine performance
to a new unprecedented level,” said Eckhard Pfeiffer former
CEO of Compaq Computer and Chairman of China Communications Corp.’s Board of
Consultants.
Traditional Search Engines focus on direct keyword matches. This technology
holds the vision of understanding what pages a user might want to view, without
matching keywords. The Search Engine with Artificial Intelligence better understands
the users question through the utilization of an algorithm that restates the
question and alters the verbiage based on sophisticated word permutations.
Acoona, in addition to web spiders that populate and update
its database, has access to hundreds of millions of records from worldwide
sources, delivering the richest and most robust database for search results.
With a database of over 20 million US companies and over 30 million companies
worldwide, the user will be able to search for businesses utilizing a large
array of criteria: such as Name, Physical Address, Telephone, Fax, Business
Description, industry category, company’s URL and geographic location.
Until now, these uniquely combined business Search components, and corresponding
results, have not been readily available on the Internet for the end user.
The CCC platform is the result, and the combination of, CCC’s unique technology
and exclusive online information that has not been previously available on
the Internet.
Acoona will launch in the US and China in December 2004.
About China Daily Information Company
China Daily Information Company (CDIC), www.ChinaDaily.com.cn,
is the official English language web destination in China. This partnership
includes an equity stake in China Communications Corp. Minister Zhao
Qizheng of the State Council Information Office stated, “my department
will support such efforts to promote Chinese Enterprises to do business with
companies throughout the World”.
About China Communications Corp
China Communications Corp. (CCC) is launching www.Acoona.com as the World’s
most comprehensive online Business Database and Business Search Engine. The
Online Business Search Engine will be the World’s largest in terms of the quantity
and quality of information available on tens of millions of businesses located
throughout America, China and the rest of the World.
Press Contact : Paulina Balaban, paulinabalaban@yahoo.com,
212 842 4999.
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