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Northern Light Readies New Free Business Search Engine
Northern Light Readies New Free Business Search Engine
by Paula J. Hane
Posted On March 27, 2008
Information Today
<http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=41368>
Northern Light
<http://www.northernlight.com>
has been providing business research content and search technology since
its founding in 1996. It offered one of the first web search engines for
business professionals and became well-known for its helpful blue results
folders. Since 2002, the companys main business has been in providing
content and tools to enterprises. It offered its Business Research Engine
BRE;
via subscription or annual licenses.
For background, see our NewsBreak at
<http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=18160>
However, the company has been quietly gearing up for a major changethe
company stopped charging for BRE subscriptions last November, and, in
December 2007, it starting redirecting traffic to a new, free, beta
business search engine at www.nlsearch.com, which is due to launch in
April. In addition to searching the best of the webs business news sources
and blogs, the new Northern Light Search now provides text analytics and
"meaning extraction" capabilities from Northern Lights MI Analyst
application, formerly only available to the companys enterprise clients.
It also offers some collaborative social computing features, such as
Market Intelligence Wikis.
When the search service officially launches "sometime in mid-April," it
will include a series of widgets that leverage the search activity of the
Northern Light Search community of business researchers. These search
widgets will include tag clouds of the most popular search terms and lists
of the most popular articles accessed by other business users.
<snip>
The content in Northern Light Search now includes the following:
Business newsMore than 500,000 up-to-the-minute business news stories from
hundreds of newswires, newspapers, corporate news feeds, and publications
will be updated every few minutes.
Industry authority blogsThe search engine will make more than 200,000
posts from thousands of editorially selected business and industry
authority blogs (blogs from journalists, market research analysts, and
corporate executives) available.
National and international newsMore than 90,000 general and business news
stories from national and international news feeds will be offered.
Regional and local newsMore than 180,000 general and business news stories
from regional and local news feeds will be made available.
White papersMore than 7,000 company submitted white papers, webcasts, case
studies, and other IT product information will be available.
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