A new search engine named The Scannery has been launched by local company, TimbukOne, allowing users to search the Web sites of 11 000 publicly traded companies across the world.
TimbukOne founder and developer Jos Pols says the difference between The Scannery and other search engines is that where other search engines reference every Web site that has a match, The Scannery focuses solely on investor-specific targets broken down by country and industry sector.
"A stock market investor is able to find results from companies whose shares are actually tradable on a stock market. The Scannery searches the Web sites of over 11 000 public companies from over 40 countries, including the S&P 1500, S&P 500, Euro 400 and Global 100.
"One can also search by country, special group or industry sectors," he says.
Pols says users can search using fuzzy logic, write a word phonetically, or use synonyms. Search results can be sorted by relevance, number of hits, document date, or document size.
"The Scannery will search virtually any file made available on the Web site of a public company, not only HTML files, but also Word documents, PDF files, Excel files, PowerPoint files, and even the contents of ZIP files. The most powerful feature is that the user can consolidate all search results by company Web site, and even find all hits within all documents on any specific Web site," he says.
Pols says all public companies have been included. In bigger countries like the US, the top 1 500 companies have been included, while in a smaller market like Japan, the top 500 companies are searched.
He says The Scannery generates revenue through branding, co-branding and integration into third-party Web sites.
He says as far as he is aware, The Scannery is the only investor-specific search engine which exclusively searches publicly traded companies in the world today.
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