WordCruncher Internet Technologies Inc, the somewhat eccentric would-be purveyor of internet search technology has confirmed that its eponymous product will be available in the first quarter of next year, as promised earlier this year (07/27/98). Alpine, Utah-based WordCruncher hit the headlines at the start of this year when it held an audacious auction by placing ads in trade papers and asking for bids for its technology. It got a somewhat muted response so it then took a more conventional route to funding, going public by reversing into a shell company in July. The product, which is essentially an internet version of the company’s proprietary search engine (which has been used in academia for more than a decade) will be launched in mid- February. It will display the results of searches in context, meaning that it will show the target of search surrounded by the actually text of the document, rather than as a link with a description of the site’s content.
