Northern Light Business Research Search Engine Returns After 4-year Absence

[mandy]

From the press release:

Northern Light®, a provider of custom enterprise, industry, and Web search engines, announced today that it is releasing a new version of the Business Research Engine (www.nlresearch.com) which opens the service to all users.

C. David Seuss, CEO of Northern Light, said, "Ten years ago, Northern Light launched our first Web search engine with the idea that business professionals would prefer to search industry publications, business news, and the Web from one site using one user interface. Northern Light has been providing business search for a decade now. In 2002, the company's then new owners discontinued free public access to the search engine and focused solely on enterprise users. When the employee group bought the company back in 2003, we immediately decided to return the free public access to our search engine as soon as we had the right product to offer. You cannot imagine how proud we are of this day when we are able to invite the public back. The Little Blue Folders are once again at your service!"

All users of the Business Research Engine can now browse the Market Intelligence Centers (MIC), access the featured reports and resources from the Web, and can use the Business Web™ search without limitations as well as our new white paper search. Users can search the full-text of trade journal and business news databases without limitation to see if there are interesting and relevant articles that meet their needs. A subscription or day pass is required to read articles from the journals and business news sources and to take advantage of our advanced functionality like Search Alerts, Public Alerts and user preferences.

There is no advertising on the site, no pop-ups, no paid inclusions, no text ads pretending to be search results. "The Northern Light Business Research Engine is a professional tool intended for professionals," said Seuss.

Credit card subscriptions to access the premium content and features can take two forms: a monthly subscription for $9.95 or, a new option with this version, 24 hour day passes for $4.95. Subscribers have unlimited access to all content and features. There are also annual enterprise licenses available for $5,000 for up to 50 seats and $36,000 for an unlimited number of users.

In addition the already extensive content in the Business Research Engine has been expanded significantly:

    * Market Intelligence Centers - browse through 20 Market Intelligence Centers covering the landscape of industries, with our editors picking the important stories of the day and finding substantive reports and feature articles that provide analysis, commentary and perspective.
    * Journals - 1.3 million articles from over 1,400 premium publications that are mostly industry trade journals. This content is simply not available from Web search engines. Several hundred new publications have been added as part of the product upgrade.
    * Business Web™ - there are now over 100 million pages from the Business Web of over 22,000 websites of public companies, private companies, venture funded companies, venture capital companies, trade associations, trade journals, MBA programs, corporate law firms, and agencies of the government that regulate business. Shopping and e-retail, and consumer sites such as MySpace, are excluded from the Business Web so that search results are from just that part of the Web that business analysts and market researchers want. The Business Web has been expanded to include thousands more sites, tens of millions of more pages, and to ensure that the content crawled from sites is on target for business research.
    * News - 100,000 up-to-the-minute business news stories from over 70 newswires, updated every 2 minutes; or 3 million articles from archived newspapers and newswires stretching back 3 years.
    * White Papers - a brand new collection of over 5,000 company submitted white papers, webcasts, case studies and other IT product information.

full press release: http://www.northernlight.com/press/20060911.html
the search engine: http://www.northernlight.com/

[rose]

Cool.  I'm glad it's back.