AltaVista Software, a division of AltaVista Company, a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. has announced that its search and retrieval technology has been selected by Covisint to drive content search and retrieval on its automotive industry portal.

Covisint will use the AltaVista Software solution to provide secure categorisation and consolidation across disparate automotive industry data sources. Covisint customers will leverage the AltaVista Software search engine to query resources within the industry portal.

“Covisint serves as a central hub for the automotive industry. To manage and provide access to such a high volume of business information we needed a solution with a proven track-record for scalability and industrial-strength performance,” said Mark Baughman, Global Director, Portal Products at Covisint. “Our investment in AltaVista Software will bring increased efficiency and relevance to our partners’ and customers’ searches for competitively priced goods and become an important catalyst for decreasing the overall costs of doing business.”