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TIGERLOGIC ANNOUNCES PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF CHUNKIT! Beta Testers Report Finding Information Faster with ChunkIt! – an Innovative Tool for Searching Behind the Links of Google and Any Web Page SAN JOSE, Calif. — OCT. 9, 2008 – TigerLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: TIGR), today announced the public availability of ChunkIt! (http://www.getchunkit.com), a new free search tool designed to help people find better information faster on the Web. ChunkIt! instantly searches for and retrieves the valuable information hidden behind the hyperlinks contained on any Web page, saving users valuable time lost from clicking on lame and irrelevant links. ChunkIt! is available for Firefox (PC and Mac) and Internet Explorer browsers. ChunkIt! provides users with a one click solution that quickly and easily enhances the search results from any Web site or search engine, including Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live Search, AOL and Ask. ChunkIt! searches for the relevant “chunks” of information hidden behind the links and extracts them with the keywords highlighted, so users can efficiently find the information they want without clicking through endless links and opening multiple windows. During the beta period, 96% of the users surveyed reported that ChunkIt! helped them find information faster on the Web. “ChunkIt! is an awesome search tool,” said Daniel Khalessi, a ChunkIt! beta user. “I've downloaded many search tools to try and help with my Web searches and research, and in the end none really helped me find the information I was looking for quickly. ChunkIt! is a powerful search tool that saves me hours of time searching through Google results and Web pages. Now that I use ChunkIt!, I can’t search the Web without it." “Despite improved search algorithms, people spend lots of time clicking on link after link, hoping to find the needle in the haystack. ChunkIt! solves this problem by analyzing and extracting the information you are looking for, eliminating the time wasted clicking on lame links,” said Carlton Baab, CEO of TigerLogic. ”ChunkIt! not only enhances search engine results, it searches and retrieves information behind any link on any Web page, whether you are shopping on Amazon for a digital camera with specific zoom features or whether you are a student conducting research on sites like LexisNexis.” According to research by Microsoft, roughly a third of Web searches don't get answered correctly on the first search and first click. Usually searchers find the information they want eventually, but that often requires multiple searches or clicks on multiple search results. A main cause for this problem is that a search result may look promising based on its short description, but instead it turns out to be irrelevant when the actual page is visited, resulting in wasted time. ChunkIt! saves searchers time by exposing the contents of the search results so that they can determine which results best align with their intent. In addition, by reviewing the contents behind the search results, users may easily identify other keyword combinations to further refine their searches and gain better results. ChunkIt! helps everyone save time, whether you are a shopper, student, teacher, parent or business professional, by making almost any search task on the Web faster and easier, including:
TigerLogic also recently launched their ChunkIt! blog with search tips and product updates at http://www.tigerlogic.com/ChunkIt/blog. For a free download of ChunkIt! or to learn more, please visit http://www.getchunkit.com. About TigerLogic Corporation: TigerLogic Corporation (Nasdaq: TIGR), has been providing reliable data management and rapid application deployment solutions for ISVs and developers of database applications for more than three decades. TigerLogic's product offerings include: 1) TigerLogic® ChunkIt!, an internet browser-based application that enhances the search experience of any popular search engine or Web page; 2) TigerLogic® XML Data Management Server (XDMS), provides flexible, scalable and extensible XML data storage as well as query and retrieval of critical business data across a variety of structured and unstructured information sources; 3) Pick® Universal Data Model (Pick UDM) based database management systems and components, including D3®, mvEnterprise® and mvBase® that are the choice of more than a thousand application developers worldwide; and 4) Omnis Studio®, a cross-platform, object-oriented RAD tool for developing sophisticated thick-client, Web-client or ultra thin-client database applications. TigerLogic's installed customer base includes more than 500,000 active users representing more than 20,000 customer sites worldwide, with a significant base of diverse vertical applications.
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