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One97.com, Alumni.net tie up for extended database
India Today Newspaper
July 11, 2000 |
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Delhi, July 10 The One97.company (www.one97.com),
a people search and maps service on the Internet have announced
that Infophil Inc. (www.alumni.net)
an alumni contact database company, will provide the ability
to search its databases through One97.com.
This will enable users to search 350,000 additional e-mail addresses
of Indian users registered with Alumni.net, in addition to its
own databases.
With the agreement, the total contacts searchable through One97.com
are in excess of 3 millions, including half a million e-mail
contacts.
"We are very pleased with this relationship with One97.com.
They are a pioneer and a leader in the Indian People search
space, with a focus to making people find other people. This
fits very well with the value of Alumni.net of bringing friends
togeth! er," said Mr. Eric Tomacruz, CEO, Alumni.net. “Alumni.net
will work very closely with One97.com to bring the highest value
possible to alumni of institutions in India”, he further added.
Rakesh Shukla, CEO, One97, remarked, “The Indian user has not
had one of the very basic utilities on the Internet, to search
for and establish contact with other people,” on the announcement
of the relationship. “One97.com will soon be extend this service
with the addition of 500,000 e-mail contacts,” he added.
“We do not want the consumers to restricted their ability to
find contacts only from a desktop, and soon all our services
will be available on WAP phones,” said Vijay Shekhar, COO, One97.
“One97.com will soon announce the availability of more contact
data on our People Search service, as we expand the service
to cover more than 50 million contacts by the end of 2000,”
mentioned Vijay Shekhar.
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