KartOO® revamps its leading MetaSearch engine Kartoo

KartOO Technologies, a leading Cartographic web interface developer and Information Visualization software provider, announced today the immediate availability of a new version of its flagship MetaSearch engine www.kartoo.com. This innovative tool heralds the next generation of search engines. The search results are displayed using its trademarked Semantic Map metaphor. This new version incorporates numerous new functions:
• Complementary Integrated Image, Video and Wikipedia® searches
• Exploration Help mechanisms: Preview vignette box, visual identification of the already

explored sites by a small check bar icon.
• Custom Skin and Graphical Customization
All of the above features are reinforcing the previous unique ones found in earlier versions of kartoo.com
• Visualization of the semantic relationships between the results
• Suggestion of expressions and keywords to help the users to target, refine their searches

Kartoo's award-winning products are used by thousands of users as well as leading services and Internet companies worldwide. www.KartOO.com is available in various linguistic versions (English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese). In tandem with this announcement, KartOO management has just initiated a round of financing initiatives to accelerate the commercial development of its new Enterprise Search Software division and the creation of international subsidiaries. Please check this new version at http://www.kartoo.com. Deriving intelligence from overwhelming masses of information remains a key challenge for most business professionals and individual users. Visualization tools and cartographic interfaces are fast becoming a requirement for working with large and varied sets of information.

About KartOO Technologies: KartOO is a leading business solutions software publisher based in Clermont Ferrand, France. KartOO develops a unique Cartographic interface for numerous markets and applications. KartOO provides a visualisation information search and visual representation technology, which can be adapted to all kinds of sources (web portals, databases, file servers, ERP, electronic document management and KM solutions). KartOO is about to launch a range of Enterprise Search software for the main existing Indexing Search solutions (Google®, IBM®, Microsoft®, Fast® and Autonomy®). This innovative Software will provide advanced business Information visualization capabilities into enterprise applications. Derived from years of research efforts at renowned French University Labs, the company's applications enable end-users or corporate users to retrieve relevant information more effectively.