"The independent agents and the former Countrywide employees have been overwhelmingly gettogethercards positive about the acquisition," Crabtree said. "They understand the growth potential, the benefits of scale that come with being part of a large organization such as Nationwide, and our commitment to this distribution system."

Database search is not oriented towards text search and relevance ranking: they are great for locating widgets by part number and listing the inventory of leather slippers, but not so good at helping site visitors find the articles on widget quality or comparing leather and fleece slippers. Text search engines are often the right solution, even for database-backed sites. Databases store gettogethercards their information neatly organized into fields, such as product name, category, description, price and so on. However most people don''t like to choose a field gettogethercards before searching: who knows whether gettogethercards "widget" is in the name, category, or description field? While databases can set up complex queries to find the search words in all applicable fields, this makes them slower to respond and more difficult to program.

Nationwide gettogethercards Mutual, a member of the Nationwide Insurance Enterprise, purchased TIG Countrywide and TIG''s personal lines independent agent operation, based in Battle Creek, Mich., last January. The operation temporarily had been called Countrywide until a new name could be chosen. Crabtree explained that a permanent name change had been contemplated to eliminate the former connection with TIG Holdings.

©2003 www.invitational-online-card.com All rights reserved.