GOOGLE DEPLOYS BASIS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS FOR ASIAN LANGUAGE SUPPORT IN AWARD-WINNING SEARCH ENGINE
— Leading Globalization Provider Enables Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Search and Retrieval —
p>Cambridge, MA, June 19, 2001—Basis Technology (www.basistech.com), the leading provider of software globalization solutions, today announced that Google, Inc. has integrated its Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Morphological Analyzers into the award-winning Google search engine, enhancing Google’s search engine with the best Asian language support available.“Google selected Basis Technology to provide the Asian linguistic technology needed to create the ultimate Chinese, Japanese, and Korean search engine,” said Urs Hölzle, Google Fellow and vice president. “This marks a key milestone in establishing Google as the preferred search engine for Internet users worldwide.”
“We congratulate Google for striving to provide the Asian online community with the highest quality search available,” said Carl Hoffman, president and CEO of Basis Technology. “This is the world’s fastest-growing Internet market, and we have already seen an enthusiastic reception for Google’s Asian-language search.”
According to a recent study by Global Reach, the number of active Internet users in China, Japan, and Korea combined will jump from 99 million to more than 250 million by 2003. The Chinese-speaking Internet population alone is predicted to take the lead in global growth, more than quadrupling in number of users by 2005.
Basis Technology’s Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Morphological Analyzers enabled Google to add the industry’s most advanced Asian linguistic capabilities to its search engine. The analyzers are portable, high-performance text analysis and word segmentation engines that ensure the most accurate Asian language text handling available.
To globalize its search platform, Google also integrated Basis Technology’s Rosette, the C++ Library for Unicode. Rosette is the leading cross-platform library for Unicode, an international encoding standard that enables software products to handle all of the world’s written languages.
About Basis Technology
Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for extracting meaningful intelligence from multilingual text. The company’s Rosette® Platform is a suite of high-performance, highly reliable, interoperable software components designed for applications that analyze and process all the world’s languages.
Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and entity extraction. Clients include America Online, Convera, Endeca, Google, Hewlett-Packard, InQuira, Inktomi, L.L Bean, Northrop Grumman, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Verity and Yahoo!.
Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch offices in San Francisco, California; Herndon, Virginia; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 800-697-2062.