ENVIROBIZ ANNOUNCES NEW INTERNET PORTAL: ENVIROBIZ SEARCH
Internet’s popularity creates need for specialized portals and search engines
July 19, 1999 - For Immediate Release
Contact: Mr. Cary Perket Phone: 612/831-2473 x 10
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Envirobiz (http://www.envirobiz.com) has implemented a new internet portal with a search engine dedicated to the specific purpose of assisting environmental professionals locate environmental services, equipment and technology providers. Envirobiz Search is designed to provide more accurate searches on the internet by minimizing non-related matches, eliminating duplicate matches, and allowing more precise environmental terminology to be utilized.
"Most major Internet search engines on the internet will provide over 900,000 matches to a search for ‘environmental consultant’. There definitely are not 900,000 environmental consulting firms, not even 9,000," says Envirobiz President Cary Perket. "If you look closely at the results of a search, you find countless non-related matches, duplicative matches, and some matches not in the environmental field. It is simply not user friendly."
"Unfortunately, many environmental service and technology firms are relying on these same major internet portals like Yahoo, Excite and AOL to bring potential customers to their site. Clearly, with 900,000 matches per search, the odds are against that happening. As the internet grows, the odds will continue to worsen." Says Perket, "Envirobiz Search is about improving the probably of a website being found by potential customers."
Envirobiz Search uses different approaches that make the Internet more user friendly and improve the prospects for participants. Envirobiz Search:
only accepts registration from environmental services and equipment technology firms;
only accepts one website registration from each firm,
uses a registration format that allows the registering service or technology to use precise wording to describe their services
uses separate search files for services, equipment and technology providers to eliminate mismatches caused by duplicate keywords used by both services and equipment technology firms.
"With Envirobiz Search, environmental services, equipment and technology firms will be solely identified on the basis of their descriptive content matches to the user’s search criteria," says Envirobiz’s Perket. "Unfortunately, it has become a necessity and prevalent practice for internet search services to bias search results in favor of major advertisers. Envirobiz Search is about empowering the users by presenting accurate and precise unbiased matches among potential providers."
Envirobiz’s corporate parent, Environmental Information Limited (EI), has aided environmental professionals locate environmental services through its Directory and Databases since 1983. Just like the EI Environmental Services Database and Directory have been the standard bearers for completeness and quality, Envirobiz is dedicated to making Envirobiz Search the internet’s single best resource for locating environmental services and equipment technology.
Environmental professionals can use Envirobiz Search for free. Environmental service and technology firms worldwide are eligible to register. Those interested in registering for Envirobiz Search should call 612-831-2473, fax 612-831-6550, or e-mail ei@mr.net to request registration forms. There is a $199.95 per year fee for registration of an environmental service or technology company. This includes company information keywords, and a link to the firm’s website.
Envirobiz is one of the oldest internet centers serving environmental professionals. It offers a variety of proprietary data, information, news, and research for environmental professionals through exclusive and non-exclusive arrangements with other firms as well as its own research.
Envirobiz is owned by Environmental Information Limited (EI), 7301 Ohms Lane, Suite 460, Edina, Minnesota 55439. Established in 1983, EI is a leading provider of databases, information, news and research on the environmental marketplace for environmental services, and equipment technology.
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