www.iddinformationservices.com Open in urlscan Pro
64.22.104.197  Public Scan

Form analysis
1 forms found in the DOM

Name: searchForm — http://www.themiddlemarket.com/search/index.html

<form id="searchForm" name="searchForm" action="http://www.themiddlemarket.com/search/index.html">
  <input type="hidden" name="zkDo" value="search" id="zkDo">
  <input type="hidden" name="begin_date" value="09/30/2009">
  <input type="hidden" name="end_date" value="03/30/2011">
  <input type="text" name="query" class="txt">
  <input type="submit" name="search" class="submit" value="Search">
  <p><a href="http://www.themiddlemarket.com/search/">Advanced Search</a></p>
</form>

Text Content

 * Home
 * About Us
 * Subscribe
 * Trial
 * Advertise
 * Help
 * Contact Us
 * RSS/XML
 * 

Advanced Search


SECTIONS

 * Investment Banking
 * Private Equity
 * Hedge Funds
 * M & A
 * Restructuring


NEWS BY INDUSTRY

 * Healthcare
 * Real Estate
 * TMT
 * Energy
 * Financial Services

More


NETWORKING

 * Blogs
 * Web Seminars
 * White Papers
 * Podcasts


REFERENCE

 * People Database
   
 * Securities in Registration
 * Aftermarket Performance
 * Investment Banking Database
 * League Tables
 * Industry Links


READER SERVICES

 * Risk-Free Trial
 * Manage Account
 * Reprints
 * 40 Under 40
 * Deal of the Year


RELATED SITES

 * Mergers & Acquisitions
 * Asset Securitization Report
 * Private Placement Letter
 * Leveraged Finance News
 * Investment Management Mandate Pipeline
 * Money Management Executive
 * American Banker
 * The Bond Buyer


Sign up today and take advantage of member-only content — the kind of timely,
cutting edge industry insight that only IDD can deliver.
 * Investment Dealers' Digest one-month trial subscription
 * themiddlemarket.com one-month trial subscription
 * Free e-newsletters
 * Free whitepapers
   


ABOUT IDD INFORMATION SERVICES

IDDIS
2 World Trade Center, 18th Floor
New York, NY, 10048
(212) 432-0045

IDD Information Services is IDD's multimedia financial information services
division.

Mark Lerch and Michael Danziger helped form IDD Information Services in 1984, a
provider of financial information data, news, and services, which was sold to
Extel Financial in 1986. IDDIS provided the investment banking, financial
services and money management communities, as well as corporate clients and
personal investors, with a full spectrum of top-quality domestic and
international financial databases and information management software. Their
institutional clients included the leading investment banks such as: Bear
Stearns, Chemical Bank, CS First Boston, Dean Witter, Merrill Lynch, Paine
Webber, Prudential and Smith Barney. Their personal investor products were
provided to users through major consumer software and online distribution
channels.

Gari Software Associates was co-founded by Dr. Larry Rafsky in 1985 and was
acquired by the Dow Jones Company in 1990 under the subsidiary IDD Information
Services. The organization specialized in financial data base and real-time news
integration for Wall Street. Clients included Merrill Lynch, Shearson, CS First
Boston, Dean Witter, Chemical Bank, and Kidder Peabody. Dr. Rafsky served as
president of Gari from 1985 to 1998. The company's flagship products were
MediaXpress, xmlnews.org, and the first hyperlinking search engine called
RankDex. RankDex was developed by Robin Li, the founder of Baidu, and Clinton
Cimring, the founder of GetUpdated.

RankDex used backlink information (i.e., information from pages that contain
links to the current page) to assist in identifying relevant web documents.
Rather than using the content of a document to determine relevance, the
technique used the anchor text of links to the document to characterize the
relevance of a document. (The idea of associating anchor text with the page the
text points to was first implemented in the World Wide Web Worm (Oliver A.
McBryan, GENVL and WWWW: Tools for Taming the Web, First International
Conference on the World Wide Web, CERN, Geneva, May 25-27, 1994)).

The Hyperlink Search Engine applied this idea to assist in determining document
relevance in a search. In particular, search query terms were compared to a
collection of anchor text descriptions that point to the page, rather than to a
keyword index of the page content. A rank was then assigned to a document based
on the degree to which the search terms matched the anchor descriptions in its
backlink documents. This process was referred to as citation counting or
backlinking.

The well known idea of citation counting is a simple method for determining the
importance of a document by counting its number of citations, or backlinks. The
citation rank r(A) of a document which has n backlink pages is simply r(A)=n.

RankDex is mainly known today for being the technology underlying Baidu and
having been cited in Lawrence Page's patent application for Google's PageRank,
as well as several hundred subsequent patent applications for search engines.

IDD was acquired by Dow Jones & Co. in 1997 where they launched a number of
innovative services including Barron's Online in partnership with Dow Jones and
Tradeline Electronic Stock Guide. In 1998, Dr. Rafsky led a management buyout of
Gari Software from Dow Jones, and sold the resulting entity to WavePhore, while
IDDIS retained the RankDex search engine.

Platinum Equity acquired IDD Information Services renaming the company
Tradeline.com, from Dow Jones and Company in January 2000, which was then
acquired by SunGard Data System in 2002. Tradeline.com provided industry-leading
securities data, Web-based development tools and software applications to the
investment banking, corporate finance and professional securities analysis
industries.

Since 1973, Wall Street's leading banks and brokerage houses relied on
Tradeline.com for the industry's most accurate and comprehensive historical
securities pricing data. The company was the first of its kind to provide data
resources and tools via a Web-based application to the professional marketplace.

IDDIS Today:

Upon SunGard’s talks about a partnership with Sun Microsystems in 2008, the
company sought to re-establish the now 10 year old search technology of RankDex.
To aid them in the process the joint author of the technology behind RankDex and
the founder of the subsidiary GetUpdated, Clinton Cimring was enlisted to aid in
the process. In August 2010 Clinton Cimring was appointed interim CEO of IDD
Information Services and GetUpdated.


RELATED SITES

 * Gari Software
 * Investment Dealers Digest
 * GetUpdated Internet Marketing

 

 

 * Home
 * About Us
 * Trial
 * Advertise
 * Help
 * Contact Us
 * RSS/XML
 * Privacy Statement

©2011 Investment Dealers' Digest and SourceMedia, Inc. All rights reserved.
SourceMedia is an Investcorp company.
Use, duplication, or sale of this service, or data contained herein, is strictly
prohibited.