FYI McKinley Internet Katalog

["H. Bork, Frankfurt am Main" <Bork _at__ StUB.uni-frankfurt.d400.de>]

Liebe Mitlesende,
 
man wird ja sehen, ob McKinley's Internet-Katalog 
oder die Bibliotheken mehr bieten auf Dauer.

allen ein schoenes Wochenende 
wuenscht

h.bork 

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>You might also check out The McKinley Internet Directory
>
>                         http://www.mckinley.com
>
>It rates sites on all possible criteria AND facilitates access to them.
>
>See press release below.
>
>    SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Personal Library Software,
>Inc. (PLS) and The McKinley Group, Inc. announced today that PLS is
>providing the full-text and concept based search technology for The
>McKinley Internet Directory, which launched today.  The McKinley Internet
>Directory is the solution for novice and expert Internet users alike who
>are frustrated by the often-daunting task of finding relevant and quality
>information on the Net.  It is the most comprehensive on- line directory,
>providing reviewed, described and rated resources to make it easier for
>Internet users to locate the information they need.
>
>    "The McKinley" is being hosted by Netcom and offered free to all
>Internet users for the next 60 days.  By adding PLS's structured and
>concept searching on top of browsing 15 categories spanning all
>disciplines, "The McKinley" becomes a powerful living roadmap to the best
>of the Internet.
>
>    "The McKinley" currently has 80,000 sites, of which 20,000+ sites have
>been reviewed and rated, and more are evaluated daily.  A large team of
>in-house "cyberwriters," in conjunction with International Content Advisory
>Boards, thoroughly describe, review and rate sites to provide the Internet
>user with a powerful human focus to their Internet explorations.
>
>    Users of "The McKinley" will find features in this directory that are
>unmatched, such as descriptions of each site, including title and URL
>hotlinks; keyword and audience descriptors; producer information; the
>language of the resource; and cost, if any.  The sites in "The McKinley"
>are also rated, on a scale of one to four stars, according to the following
>criteria: the completeness of content, the organization of the site, how
>up-to-date it is, and its ease of access.  All of these features deliver
>what Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, has called "the
>Michelin Guide for the Internet."
>
>    David Hayden, president of The McKinley Group, says, "We are very
>pleased to be working with PLS, and their technical support has been most
>helpful.  PLS's rich development tools gave us the flexibility to design a
>powerful multi-tiered service with the look and feel we want for our
>users."
>
>    "McKinley's developers have done a superb job of molding our technology
>so that users can interact with McKinley content easily and effectively,"
>said Matt Koll, president of PLS.  "The ease with which you can explore
>widely, or zoom right in on what you're looking for is wonderful."
>
>    About The McKinley Group     Headquartered in Sausalito, California,
>The McKinley group was founded in 1993 by a team of international
>publishers, technologists and information specialists, committed to
>delivering the best navigational and informational tool for the Internet.
>
>    About PLS     PLS is the leading supplier of information retrieval
>software for use on the Web, on-line services and CD-ROM.  PLS products
>combine intelligent retrieval techniques with the flexibility of graphical
>user interfaces.  PLS software has been rapidly adopted for the WEB and has
>been recognized for its distributed searching, scalability, relevance
>ranking, concept searching and interoperability.
>
>    PLS's customers and partners are a virtual "who's who" of the
>information industry, including America Online, Apple Computer, Inc.,
>Appleton & Lange, Arizona Daily Star, Associated Press, Baseline,
>Bertelsmann, CommerceNet, Congressional Quarterly, DataTimes, Dow Jones
>News/Retrieval, Electronic Newsstand, Financial Times Information Services,
>Footage.Net, Grolier Electronic Publishing, Hewlett-Packard, Illustra,
>Individual Inc., the Internet Company, Knight-Ridder, National Public
>Radio, NewsNet, Open Market, Inc., Prodigy, Time Inc., USA Today, and the
>US House of Representatives.
>
>    PLS can be reached at its headquarters at 2400 Research Boulevard,
>Suite 350, Rockville, MD 20850-3243 and via the Internet at
>http://www.pls.com or info _at__ pls.com.
>
>    PLWeb(TM) is a trademark of Personal Library Software, Inc. All other
>trademarks are the property of their respective holders.