IBM Introduces infoMarket Search, Internet Service Helps Surfers Find
Essential Information

Falls Church, VA, Sept. 19, 1995 -- IBM today announced the commercial
launch of the infoMarket Search service. Located at
http://www.infomkt.ibm.com, infoMarket Search is a new free network
offering that helps users to search many different databases
simultaneously across the Internet. Using common World Wide Web browsers,
such as the IBM WebExplorer included in IBM's Internet Connection for OS/2
Warp, NCSA Mosaic or Netscape Navigator, the service is accessible from
most common office computing environments.

"infoMarket Search will provide customers with an incredibly powerful and
flexible solution to their content search and retrieval requirements,"
said Jeff Crigler, vice president, IBM infoMarket. "The service enables
end users to enter a single query that is capable of interrogating nearly
all of the common database formats, supports numerous search engines and
delivers the content to the predominant end-user platforms. And infoMarket
is easy to modify to meet customers' special requirements or systems."

IBM infoMarket Search initially offers users the ability to simultaneously
search, locate and retrieve information from important Internet indexes
and information resources such as: Yahoo!, the popular index of Internet
Web sites; the Open Text Index, a full-text database containing the most
comprehensive listing available of documents contained on the World Wide
Web; the McKinley, the foremost database of described and rated sites on
the Internet today; and the content of over 13,000 USENET News groups.
Negotiations are underway with a wide variety of additional content
providers, ranging from news services to digital libraries and image
databases, which will soon be offered to subscribers of the service. The
infoMarket Search service will be offered free of charge to users through
the remainder of 1995. Users will begin to be charged for the service
early in 1996, at which time pricing will be announced.

Powerful Resource for Publishing Information on the Net

infoMarket Search enables content providers to plug their data resources
into a complete information management environment, without the need to
convert their data to new formats. IBM infoMarket Search employs an open,
client/server architecture that accommodates all popular databases and
search engines to enable nearly any owner of digital content to offer it
to the Internet's 30 million users.

Publishers with content distributed among different platforms or locations
will be able to create tailored "virtual services" for their customers.
Customers also will be able to install infoMarket agents on their own
databases and information repositories to enable them to search internal
and external sources with one query.

Additional Content Providers for infoMarket Search will include:

o Disclosure, Inc., a leading provider of financial and management data on
more than 25,000 public companies worldwide.

o COMTEX, a leading integrator and value-added distributor of hundreds of
real-time news sources from around the world. COMTEX is providing
specifically for infoMarket users Africa News Service, PR Newswire,
Business Wire, AsiaInfo, Services, Inc., The Sports Network, U.S.
Newswire, and XINHUA News Agency.

o Newsbytes, an international computing and technology wire service,
providing news and information from around the globe and emphasizing Asian
technology.

The following organizations also intend to offer their content over
infoMarket Search:

o Information Access Company (SM), a worldwide leading provider of
electronic information products, with a diverse collection of over 7000
international sources, ranging from trade and business journals, industry
newsletters, newspapers, and news wires to consumer magazines,
professional journals, market research studies and investment reports.

o Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, a major publisher of scientific and
technical information, located at URL: http://www.csa.com.

How infoMarket Works

infoMarket Search's underlying technology is designed to access widely
distributed heterogeneous information that is source- and
media-independent. Users can make a single, easy-to-pose query that
simultaneously searches all available information sources, returns the
information quickly, and creates a single relevance-ranked results list.

infoMarket Search provides a simple interface that allows to enter a query
using either a query-by-example, text pattern, or other data search
method. infoMarket non-intrusively searches all known databases on the
network, including textual, structured and multimedia source information,
using database servers that operate on IBM's AIX platform, as well as
other UNIX systems from Sun, Hewlett-Packard and others, over networks
using the TCP/IP protocol.

infoMarket also supports PAT, Topic, BRS, WAIS, Oracle, Sybase, and Basis
Plus search engines, and can be modified to support other databases and
search engines. infoMarket Search merges results from database queries and
presents them to users in many of today+s standard office computing
environments, including Apple Macintosh- and Windows-based personal
computers and common UNIX workstations employing X/Motif, Web browsers
such as IBM WebExplorer or NCSA Mosaic, and NeXTstep.

IBM is a world leader in digital technology and Internet-related products
and services, and operates the IBM Global Network, a value-added,
high-speed data, voice and video network that features 800 points of
presence in 100 countries.

infoMarket Search is the latest addition to IBM's robust portfolio of
customer solutions in the field of information management and distribution
over the Internet+s World Wide Web. IBM offers hardware, software,
consulting and services to help customers take advantage of the potential
of the Internet.

Whether addressing an individual need, or creating a total enterprise
solution, IBM provides the expertise you require to plan, design,
implement and operate an Internet solution for your business.

More information regarding IBM infoMarket Search is available on the World
Wide Web at the following URL: http://www.infomkt.ibm.com. For further
information relating to other Internet-related product and service
offerings from IBM, visit the following URL: http://www.ibm.com/Internet.

For further information relating to other organizations mentioned in this
release, please contact the following:

Yahoo!: Tim Brady (415) 934-3234
The McKinley Group: Isabelle Maxwell (415) 331-1884
Open Text: Donna Pearson  (519)  888-7111
Verity, Inc.:  Sue Barsamian  (415) 960-7661
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: Bart De Castro  (301) 961-6727
Newsbytes:  Wendy Woods  (612) 430-1100
Disclosure, Inc.:  Tim McClean  (301) 951-1300
COMTEX:  Jill Falci  (703) 820-2000
Information Access Company: Paul Owen  (415) 358-4715
 
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