Mi Islita.com Launches Searchito Site-Searches and The WireGate: Data Mining, Intelligence Gathering and Newswire Searching, One Click Away

Mi Islita.com, a scientific marketing research and search engine company announces the launching of Searchito Site-Searches and The WireGate, two gateways for remote-searching online databases. The Site-Searches gateway uses the power of search engines, instructing them to site-search for documents in a given web property (domain or host). The WireGate remote-searches newswire services, headliners, press release services, e-zines, tabloids, TV news services and newspapers. The gateways are invaluable tools for fast intelligence gathering, data mining and information extraction from online repositories.

January 29, 2002--(San Juan, Puerto Rico)--Mi Islita.com, a scientific marketing research and search engine company announces the launching of Searchito Site-Searches and The WireGate, two information search gateways powered by Searchito, the company's one-click-away technology for remote-searching online databases. According to Dr. E. Garcia, Founder and CEO of Mi Islita, the two gateways "allow researchers to find information already dispersed on the web, but hard to detect through standard search engine queries."

"We believe these two gateways will be an invaluable tool for marketing research departments, data mining and information gathering researchers. Because all our search gateways are powered by our one-click-away Searchito technology, users can search for more information, faster, without ever visiting home pages or pre-pages. The beauty of Searchito is that it only requires a browser to take advantage of the search power of almost any search engine, meta-engine or online database, while bypassing pages irrelevant to a search such as home pages or pre-pages. The end-result is the driving of qualified traffic to target databases from every single search."

In the specific case of the Searchito Site-Searches, the gateway deploits the search power of mega-search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Lycos, AOL and similar engines, instructing them to execute specialized searches. Unlike other gateways found in Mi Islita.com's site, 'Site-Searches' consists of two query fields, one for entering a search string and another for entering a URL. According to Dr. Garcia, "this gateway remote site-searches for documents in a given target web property (domain or host). We can effectively zoom-in results and search for documents containing a string from a given domain or host", he added. "For example, a researcher interested in documents related with business deals between ENRON and IBM can enter a query-url pair such as "ENRON" and "IBM.COM" and click the Lycos engine. The result will be a list of documents from the entire ibm.com property (domains and hosts) indexed by Lycos and containing the query "enron" in either the title, meta-tags, body or urls fo the documents."

"Other possible application is in the area of press release searches. For example, to search for press releases in a given property such as Intel, a user can try "press release" and "intel.com". To search for press releases about Microsoft in a given newswire service such as Businesswire, a user can try "microsoft" and "businesswire.com" and search with, for example, Google. To sum up, users can site-search web properties, even if the target properties lack of site-search features. We believe this gateway can be used in several research scenarios such as marketing research, corporate data mining and intelligence gathering from online repositories."

Mi Islita.com has also developed a gateway, exclusively for remote-searching for breaking news and press releases. Its name: The WireGate. This is a gateway for remote-searching newswires, press release services, e-zines, tabloids, TV news services and newspapers.

"The WireGate is a one-stop solution for gathering breaking news and "to-the-minute" or "to-the-hour" information from around the World", Dr. Garcia states. It complements The American NewsGate, a gateway we press released a month ago and for state-by-state searching US newspapers. Due to its global coverage nature, information not found through The American NewsGate may be accessible through the WireGate. All major newspapers from Europe, Asia, LatinAmerica and Africa can be remote-searched with the WireGate. All newswire and press release services such as AP, EFF, UPI, DrudgeReport, and headliners such as PRWires, Nando NewsIndex and Moreover can be remote-searched. All recognizable TV Networks such as ABC, CNN, BBC, CBS and important e-zines/tabloids can be accessed as well. The bottom line is that users can search more, faster, while the target database receives qualified traffic from each search. It is a win-win situation we have accomplished with our Searchito technology and through all our gateways."

Asked about future plans, Dr. Garcia added: "We are currently working on theme-based Searchito gateways for remote-searching Medical, Pharmaceutical and Educational repositories. A month ago we launched SearchiTools, a Searchito-based toolbar for remote-searching local machine resources. With SearchiTools, users can access local directories and perform forensic and maintenance tasks, without the need for memorizing hard-to-remember paths. SearchiTools is featured on DaveCentral.com site. It is an example of how our technology can be applied to software development. We are currently designing other web tools for, for example, counting links popularity and for submitting web sites across all search engines. To conclude, all our R&D projects revolve around our one-click-away Searchito technology. We strongly believe in this technology and we look forward to launch as many theme-based Searchito gateways and web tools as possible."