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BlackBall® Announces SearchIn™ Desktop and Professional
BlackBall® Announces SearchIn™ Desktop and Professional

Fast Accurate Patent-Pending Search System Delivers Industrial Strength Desktop Solution
SAN DIEGO - March 14, 2005 - BlackBall® Inc., a leading provider of desktop and network search products today announce SearchIn, a desktop search product line for Windows. While the cost of storage has gone down, and as the number of applications that create files has gone up, the total number of files on a hard drive has increased exponentially. Finding files, emails, photos, documents and other information has never been more challenging. SearchIn "calms the C:\" with our patent-pending technology that allows you to find your files instantly.

"SearchIn Desktop and Professional for Windows is the ultimate search engine for your desktop. SearchIn "calms the C:\" with our patent-pending technology that allows you to find your files instantly by indexing not just the contents of a file, but also indexing the metadata that describes the specific details of unstructured files," said Bob Brown, CEO of BlackBall. "SearchIn users have all the basic benefits of search & retrieval, file management, and an unstructured database, all in one product... all without having to learn a new application."

SearchIn Desktop and Professional is system-level software that utilizes a patent-pending keyword indexing methodology that enables fast accurate searches. The system automatically indexes files as they are saved to desktop volumes. The products leverage real time indexing that is optimal for system performance and search accuracy. The search index has been designed to address the complexity of rich media files by understanding specific metadata structures in these files.

SearchIn Desktop provides support for all file types file system data. Support is also provided for a small sample of files to demonstrate the power of content and metadata index, search, and retrieval. The basic file types supported include: MS Word .doc, .MS Excel xls, MS PowerPoint .ppt, MS Visio .vis, MS Project .prj, Standard Text .txt, Hyper Text Markup Language .html, and dozens of other text based file formats.

SearchIn Professional provides a variety of features specifically targeted at business desktop users. Specific support for hundreds of business critical information asset formats such as: Adobe Acrobat .pdf; Audio .mp3; Video .avi; and Images .tif files including indexing the metadata and content of the files. BlackBall's OCR indexing technology enables bitmap .tif images that are electronically scanned or faxed to have text extracted from the images and added into the search index. The Professional Edition also allows users to attach personalized descriptions of files, called custom metadata fields to enhance your search accuracy and help with the flow of information management. Users can dynamically create metadata fields and attach keywords to those fields as descriptions.

BlackBall's SearchIn software run on: 32-bit Windows desktops, notebooks, & tablet PC's on the client side are all supported. SearchIn Desktop is available as a free download at www.blackball.com, SearchIn Professional retails for $29.95.

About BlackBall, Inc.
San Diego, California-based BlackBall, Inc. is the leader in developing systems that provide fast access to dynamically stored, secure digital files of any type. BlackMagic received the Best of Show award at Networld+Interop '04 for Network Application Software. BlackBall received a finalist award from Red Herring Magazine as a Top 100 Most Innovative Companies for 2005. For more information and to download a free 30-day trail version of SearchIn or BlackMagic, please contact BlackBall at sales@blackball.com, (877) 808-2288, or visit www.blackball.us
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