WebTimeMedias.com

October 2009

WebTimeMedias.com, leading news portal for the French Riviera, adopts a powerful new search engine from Pertimm.

With its unique linguistic and semantic functionalities, the Pertimm search engine optimizes six information sites in the WebTimeMedias.com portal.

WebTimeMedias.com: a constantly-growing information portal

In 1999, Jean-Pierre Largillet, a former journalist at the prominent regional newspaper "Nice-Matin", launched Sophianet.com, a website dedicated to the Sophia Antipolis technology hub and to the French Riviera's high-tech culture. This site's continuously-expanding popularity led to the creation of the WebTimeMedias Riviera Portal (www.webtimemedias.com) in 2009. Today, this portal provides unified access to 6 information sites providing economic, political, technological and cultural news for the French Riviera: Sophianet.com, Rivierabiz.com, Competence06.com, Entreprise06.com, Metropolazur.com and Rivierascope.com.

In order to create a unified interface for these different sites and orchestrate users' searches within the 25,000 articles and dossiers on line, WebTimeMedias.com called upon Pertimm's information processing expertise.

"WebTimeMedias.com needed a powerful search engine to allow our visitors to quickly find the information they want within a huge number of documents. Pertimm responded impeccably, creating a high performance search engine that fully meets our requirements"

- Largillet said.

The Pertimm semantic search engine returns the most relevant results

Based on Pertimm's advanced linguistic and semantic technology, the natural language search engine, specially designed to WebTimeMedia's specifications, allows users to express themselves freely, using their own preferred vocabulary for search terms. Therefore, in contrast with other search engines, as the user enters more words, the search results become more relevant.

The integration of "Pertimmizers" – a list of terms characterizing an idea or a concept – helps eliminate "false negatives" (relevant documents that are not found), thus ensuring that all users receive the most relevant results.

With 20,000 daily visits and 1.5 million monthly page views, WebTimeMedias.com is in constant growth. The portal recently integrated RadioCotedAzur.com, an "audio" information site created by Emmanuel Maumon, former director of a regional radio station.

About Pertimm

Pertimm was founded in 1997 by a team of three engineers. These product designers pooled their expertise in linguistics, artificial intelligence, databases and real-time operating systems to develop innovative technology supporting high-relevance search tools.

Organizations such as the CNRS, IRSN, NASA, the French Ministry of Defense and the Musée d’Orsay, along with companies such as EADS, the SNCF, Meetic and Pages Jaunes put their trust in Pertimm's expertise to optimize their information systems.

Today, Pertimm has sites in Asnières-sur-Seine and Valence, France, as well as in the United States.

In 2009, the company was once again named an Innovative Start-Up by OSEO, following its nomination to the European Fast500, which lists the 500 European high-tech companies that have experienced the fastest growth. Pertimm's growth rate is 560% over 5 years.