São Paulo, Brazil and Herndon, VA.
Publicar S.A has implemented the Intelligenx Discovery Engine to power the popular local search destination ListaOnline.com. The website that provides business and residential information for millions of users in Brazil now offers consumers extensive new search and filtering capabilities and state-of-the-art linguistics. The new search engine also offers deeper and richer searchable content from customer ads and crawled websites all delivered with super-fast performance.
"The project to implement ListaOnline.com was not an easy undertaking" said Jorge Umana, the CIO for Publicar. "We have complex data and very extensive business requirements and required a scalable search platform that would support a huge amount of existing traffic and our future growth without sacrificing on performance or search functionalities. Besides providing us the right technology, Intelligenx's expertise and their responsive delivery has been exceptionally valuable and enabled us to deploy this highly sophisticated new application in a very short time period."
"Despite the complex business requirements, Intelligenx'sTM Discovery Engine Platform was able to meet all the requirements with substantially improved functionality and performance", said Mit Majithia, VP of Technology for Intelligenx. "ListaOnline.com is a terrific reference for Intelligenx in Brazil. It is a great showcase site to add to our growing list of customers and presence in South America".
About Intelligenx
Intelligenx is a leading provider of faceted search technology in the field of Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) and Local Search. Intelligenx's search platform, Discovery Engine, combines highly scalable search and retrieval technology with a deep understanding of the nuances of Local Search including specific linguistics and semantic capabilities, and visualization tailored to provide consumers with the ultimate online search experience. Intelligenx provides technology and related services for some of the largest yellow page publishers in the world looking to bridge the gap between print directories and the online search marketplace. Customers include Dex Media in the United States, De Telefoongids in the Netherlands, and Telkom Directory Services in South Africa. Intelligenx is headquartered in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC, with offices in Europe and South America. Learn more about Intelligenx at www.Intelligenx.com.
About Publicar, S.A.
Publicar S.A., a Carvajal Group company, is one of the leading multimedia content providers in South and Central America. Publicar S.A. has been a leader in the telephone and specialized directory business for more than 50 years, providing information in multiple media including print, internet, CD and directory assistance. It has operations in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. The company provides a wide variety of products and services ranging from phone directories to internet search services, website production, call centers, and other digital products. All together, Publicar S.A has over 5,800 employees (2,000 of which are sales representatives distributed in over 40 cities), and annually produces more than 200 directories, distributes over 15 million free directories, and designs over 8,000 web sites. Its internet search sites attract more than 4 million unique users per month and its call centers receive 1,000,000 requests every week. Learn more about Publicar at www.publicar.com. |
