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SINA.com launches powerful OPENFIND search engine
Latest search engine enables quick and up-to-date news and
financial information search in the Greater China Region
Voted best Chinese website by various authorities, SINA.com is now partnering with Taiwan's leading search engine service provider Openfind to upgrade its powerful and user-friendly search engine for SinaNews and SinaFinance. This new venture follows the recent success SINA.com enjoyed through its partnership with US' largest search engine Alta Vista. The SINA.com websites which now operate with Openfind include:
Search Engine http://search.sina.com.hk/ SinaNews http://dailynews.sina.com.hk/ SinaFinance http://finance.sina.com.hk/
Powerful Search Engine http://search.sina.com.hk/
With the introduction of Openfind, SINA.com's search engine has complied a registry of over 100,000 Chinese websites from Hong Kong, the Mainland and Taiwan. The comprehensive database includes details on the vast majority of local on-line brokers and listed companies. Daily news from over 50 Chinese media is also available. To cater to the increasing trend in e-commerce development, more than 100 on-line retail websites are included.
News Search http://dailynews.sina.com.hk/
The distinctive feature of Sina.com's powerful Openfind news search engine is its ability to appropriately order results for its users. Its hourly update and precise summary of search results allow its users access to real time news.
The majority of search engines available today only list search results according to its relevancy to a particular search request. Openfind performs precise search results by ordering its results according to time, media, news classification and relevancy. Results ordered by time enable its users to more easily understand how a whole story developed; results ordered according to media offers a cross comparison of various media views on the same news; results ordered by classification allows search results to automatically sort itself by news category; results ordered by relevancy offers users the closest results to requested information. Other functions include an enquiry search for identical pronunciation.
Finance Search
SinaFinance now offers impressive content services and even provides information on listed entities in Hong Kong, the US, China and Taiwan. Users need only enter a stock code to obtain instant up-to-date information on a company's current bidding and offering price, its low and high for the day, its trading volume, etc. Basic line charts of price and trading volume movements are also available. Further, users can search and obtain related financial news and detailed corporate information of any listed entity for investment references.
Mr Sydney Pun, Production Director of SINA.com.hk, said, "SINA.com's search engine has always been highly precise, practical and very encompassing. We are devoted to R&D for new products and services. What we have now at SinaNews and SInaFinance are unmatchable in terms of functions and content. They both accurately sort information for its users and offer the latest in financial news, stock information, research reports and plenty more. We expect the quality of our new services to meet the demands of today's more sophisticated internet user. Both SinaNews and SinaFinance are expected to become the best research tool available for students, office workers and finance professionals alike."
The Competitive Edge in SINA.com's News Search
Sina News Search Website A Website B Website C Website D Partner Media Approx. 50 (global) 12 7 8 1 Quality of Summary High accuracy No summary No summary
Summary mingled with other news No summary Frequency of Update Once an hour A few times a day Daily N/A Daily Period of Enquiry Today, within 7 days, within 30 days, before this month Today Weekly Historical news Monthly Ordering According to time, media, classification, relevancy According to relevancy According to relevancy According to relevancy According to relevancy
SINA.com is partnering with the following content providers for news and finance information on SinaNews and SinaFinance: MetroBroadcast, MingPao, SingTao Daily¡BWISERS (SingTao Daily, HK Daily News, SingPao Daily, TinTin Daily, Wenwei Pao, TaiKung Pao, HK Commercial Daily, Reuters, Dow Jones, CBS MarketWatch exclusive Chinese edition, CNET, ZDNet, Guangzhou Daily News, CNA real times, CTS, CTV, FTV, CAN, UDN News, Power News, Pheonix TV, Yangcheng Wanbao, Xinmin Evening News, Life Daily, Huasheng, China Times,vGuangming Daily, Digital Times, IS.net, Beijing Daily¡BCCTV¡BCrown Magazine, New News, Business Week, Brain Magazine, Gourment, Core Pacifice - Yamaichi, Captial, I-Invest, Franklin, American Express, Fu-bon Bank and Zurich Insurance, etc.
About SINA.com
SINA.com is a global Internet media company that operates the world's largest Chinese-language destination site. The company offers a network of branded content and services to serve the 1.5 billion people of Chinese descent worldwide. The SINA.com global network includes properties in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, North America and planned sites for other Chinese population centers around the world.
SINA.com has been ranked as the number one Chinese website by various authoritative surveys including CNNIC in China and WWW.CONSULT in Australia. As of January, 2000, SINA.com has over 420 million monthly page views and 2.4 million registered users. SINA.com is the leading brand in the Chinese Internet market. SINA.com was created by the merger of two of the largest Chinese web sites in the world: SINANET.com of Sunnyvale, CA., and Stone Rich Sight Information Technology Company Ltd. (SRS) of Beijing in December 1998. The new company, SINA.com, has offices in Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Sunnyvale, California.
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