Members: Yonghui Zhang, Mike Gebbie

Description

Competitors+ creates an at-a-glance list of a company's competitors. This is a boon to researchers, stock market junkies, managers and others who need to quickly understand who's who in industries that are new to them or rapidly changing. In our web-prototype over 130,000 news articles spanning 2 months were used to create lists that were 87% accurate. Unlike services like Hoover's Online that rely on "industry experts" to create competitor lists, Competitors+ is completely automated, and therefore, much cheaper and easier to maintain.