OutWit's Web Harvester Now Available for Firefox 3

OutWit Technologies Releases "OutWit Hub", a Powerful Data
Collection Engine Fitting in a Free Firefox 3 Extension
PARIS--(Business Wire)--
OutWit Technologies, publisher of innovative software based on its
original Web collection platform, announces the release of OutWit Hub
as a free Firefox 3 extension. The program is the first multipurpose
Web harvester allowing the general public to easily collect media and
data from the Internet and reuse them in the most common applications.

The program gathers dozens of semantic recognition and automatic
extraction features to ease Web searches, create scrapers, collect
images, sort and organize the information and produce personalized
mashups.

"The idea is no longer to respond to users' queries with lists of
pages where they can find their answers but with the answers
themselves" says J.C. Combaz, CEO of OutWit Technologies. "If you are
looking for photos of sport cars, search engines will give you
thumbnails with links to pages containing the images; OutWit will
directly put the high resolution pictures in a folder on your hard
disk. If you want stock quotes, search engines will tell you where to
find the figures; OutWit will put them into a spreadsheet on your
desktop."

The OutWit software is based on three simple concepts:

-- The program dissects the Web page into data elements and
enables the users to see only the type of data they are
looking for (images, links, email addresses, RSS news...).

-- It offers a universal collection basket, << the Catch >>, into
which the users can drag and drop any structured or
unstructured information, links or media, as they surf the
Web,

-- It browses automatically through series of pages allowing
users to harvest all sorts of objects in a single click.

OutWit saves considerable time and effort automating repetitive
tasks: putting together a contacts database, collecting all available
documents and PDF files on a topic, extracting daily job ads in a well
formatted spreadsheet, or getting hundreds of high-resolution photos
of movie stars...

With simple intuitive features (like the one-click full-screen
slideshow on a given topic or the collection basket where to drag &
drop data while surfing) as well as sophisticated scraping functions
and data structure recognition, the program targets a broad range of
user categories. However, as the first outfit based on the OutWit
Kernel library, the Hub is primarily destined to showcase the
platform's features to advanced users and allow them to develop their
own applications around the new technology.

About OutWit Technologies:

Headquartered in Paris, France, OutWit Technologies focuses on
increasing the efficiency and pertinence of Web research,
for professional use or for pleasure, eventually enabling the Internet
community to participate in the advent of the Semantic Web.

The company, initiated by a veteran of software publishing and
online services, has led since its creation an R&D program on its
innovative approach to Web search, semantic recognition and extraction
of information.

Its technical team counts some of the recognized European talents
in Mozilla development. The project has already led to the filing of
several international patents and academic partnerships. In parallel
to its B2B activity with prominent telecom operators, OutWit
Technologies chose to broadly distribute its platform as a base for
simple general public applications.

Today, with OutWit Hub, and the associated library OutWit Kernel,
the young startup is offering the fruit of two years research and
development as a versatile platform for Mozilla Firefox.

For more information about OutWit Technologies, visit
www.outwit.com.

OutWit Technologies
US Press Contact: +1 (650) 488-8099.

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