May 04, 2005

RocketNews Annual Report

Rocketinfo Inc. Outlines Corporate Strategy for 2005 in Business Wire (May 3) via Marketwatch [requires registration]

RocketNews reports on its successes in this press release as part of its annual review. The release provides a useful summary account of features and content of their news products.

+ advertising in RocketInfo through Kanoodle
+ better "content scraping and indexing technology"
+ learning system for tailoring news
+ the free "RocketNews portal now retains search history and allows full personalization and allows users to obtain current news from over 100,000 business news content sources (including 16,000+ global information sources and 80,000+ RSS/Atom news feeds and Weblog Sources)."
+ "over 37,000 registered users now use our RSS products to create personalized search based news feeds"
+ "database includes all of the world's leading news outlets including Reuters, AP, Bloomberg, the New York Times, BBC as well as content from specialized content providers such as trade journals, industry portals, government filings, specialty magazines and the world's most popular and dynamic weblogs."
+ free Rocket Desktop Search tool - create and save searches to run on last week or month.
+ planning an alerting service.

Posted by Gwen at May 4, 2005 02:52 PM