Steelonthenet.com Doubles Search Engine Capacity

Leading steel industry portal www.steelonthenet.com invests in additional search engine capacity to satisfy customer demand.

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Due to strong customer demand, www.steelonthenet.com is pleased to announce
that is has markedly increased the capacity of its steel industry-specific
search engine service.

Whilst previously, several hundred thousand fully searchable steel industry
terms from thousands of web sites were accessible from the
www.steelonthenet.com search engine service, this capacity is now doubled to
offer all steel industry professionals a leading one-stop-shop for quickly
locating steel-related information on the net.

Commenting on the launch of the enhanced service, CEO Dr Andrew Kotas said
"This service builds further upon the free steel industry news service; and
the free steel industry capacity, price, cost, import, export and exhibitions
information already provided by our information portal".

Reviewing the enhanced search engine service Martin Bailey, Technical
Director of www.sheetmetalworld.com added "This investment by
www.steelonthenet.com not only further increases the breadth and depth of the
site's search engine capability. It also involves more regular weekly
re-indexing of all pages to which the site is linked. But perhaps most
importantly, the investment will give the www.steelonthenet.com team a much
better understanding of the user search terms that are of most interest to
visitors. This should allow the site to even better optimise its rankings on
the generalist search engines such as Google".

Adds Andrew Kotas "For free inclusion within the www.steelonthenet.com search
engine listings, steel industry websites simply need to exchange links with
us. Spidering of their sites by our search engine robots is then automatic.
This is a win-win arrangement for both sides".

To use the search engine service, simply click on the 'PICOSEARCH' button
near the bottom of the main www.steelonthenet.com menu frame.

London, 7th October 2002

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