RocketNews, a PR7 news site, delivers the top stories and the latest news in market news, financial news, business news, science news, health news, technology news, world and international news, sports news, celebrity news, and online news. Commercial News Post are not the common banner or link type ads (ie Google ads), but informational posts that allow the advertiser to provide relevant informat
ion on company products or services in a news media style format, a news web post. Rocketinfo’s technology was originally developed to provide intelligent software tools that index, categorize and extract key concepts and data from current news and business information. These automated tasks enabled early adaptation of RSS (Real Simple Syndication) and Atom feeds for personalized multi-channel delivery via news portals, emails, opt-in newsletters or alerts to recipients’ desktops or mobile wireless devices. In order to showcase the search result accuracy, the low cost of deployment and scalability of the technologies, Rocketinfo launched RocketNews in October 2000. RocketNews was one of the first current news search engines on the Internet (www.rocketnews.com). Powered by Rocket’s core search technology, the site provided a web-driven breaking news portal updated every 15 minutes. Users were able to search for news from 16,000 Internet news sites, using a combination of advanced Boolean expressions and parametric controls. RocketNews handles several million search requests a month, using a cluster of Intel-based Dell servers. Calculated over one year, the cost per search request, including equipment and network connectivity, was approximately 0.0001875 cents, a benchmark in cost per search delivery model for the time. Since the acquisition of Rocketnews and associated domains, the website has been broaden to include a wider range of news sources and categories (i.e. Religion, Jobs), blogging and interactive features, a new web look and feel and the capability for citizen journalist and business to participate in web posting. Citizen journalist and business are welcome to contact the Rocketnews.com site for more information on services provided.
