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Contact:
David Seuss
Northern Light Group, LLC
Voice: 617-674-2074
Fax: 617-674-2076

www.northernlight.com

Adds current news and Search Alerts and is now available to individual subscribers

Cambridge, Mass. - September 30, 2004 - Northern Light, a provider of custom enterprise, industry, and Web search engines, announced today that it has released a new version of its business search engine and that the new version is available to individual users in addition to enterprises. The new version, called the Northern Light Business Research Engine, is available at www.nlresearch.com.

Business professionals can use the Business Research Engine to search:

• The Business Web of 20 million pages from 16,000 editorially-selected websites of public companies, private companies, trade journal and trade associations, venture funded companies, venture capital companies, corporate law firms, MBA programs, and the agencies of the Federal Government that regulate business
• Industry commentary and analysis from 5 million articles from 1,400 trade journals with the full-text and all the graphics, charts, and tables from the articles
• Current news with over 7,000 stories per day from over 70 licensed newswires covering every significant event in the business world around the globe, with the full-text index updated every two minutes

All content in the search database is tightly classified to over 40 industries so users can drill down into the information most relevant to their jobs.

A new feature in the Business Research Engine is customizable Search Alerts that allow users to save any search and be updated daily whenever the news, journals, or Business Web content has any new material that matches their interests.

Additionally, users can customize the Business Research Engine by adding websites that they frequently review for industry information to the database for full-text searching.

David Seuss, CEO of Northern Light, said, "Business professionals using general Web search engines to look for quality business information are often frustrated by irrelevant results. Results that are dominated by e-retailer sites, paid results, advertising, discussion group threads, personal pages, and pages of dubious parentage and purpose. Often, users have to flail through results from general Web search engines, page after page, looking for good information. The Business Research Engine is completely different. It is designed to provide users with all of what they need, and only what they need, efficiently and effectively."

When Northern Light was acquired by another company in 2001, public access to the business search engine was cut off and the service was then only available to enterprise accounts. The new Northern Light, now independent and back under its previous management, is making the search service available again to individuals.

Individuals can subscribe to the Northern Light Business Research Engine for $50 per month for unlimited searching, document downloads, and Search Alerts. For enterprises, there is a 5-seat small office license for $2,500 per year. Unlimited enterprise-wide licenses are available for $36,000 per year. Free 30-day trials are available by clicking on the "signup now" link at www.nlresearch.com.

Seuss added, "If you depend on high quality business information in your job, we think you would find our new service very helpful. It has been three years since we made our search engine available to individual users. We had hundreds of thousands of subscribers before, and we invite them all back to try us again. We hope that when they see those little blue folders, they will feel like they are visiting with an old friend that has finally come home."

About Northern Light^®
Northern Light (www.northernlight.com), provides custom enterprise, industry, and Web search engines for enterprises and individuals. Established in 1996, our products include the Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine, the Northern Light Business Research Engine, SinglePoint™ Market Research Engine, as well as search application professional services and development. Northern Light has built and installed over 200 custom enterprise search applications for leading organizations, and provides business research content solutions to over a hundred thousand employees of our enterprise customers every day. All products use Northern Light's patented, proprietary clustering engine, classification engine, and subject taxonomy.

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For more information, contact Northern Light at or at www.northernlight.com or call 617-674-2074.

Northern Light, the Northern Light logo, and SinglePoint are registered trademarks or trademarks of Northern Light^® Group, LLC. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

For additional information contact:
David Seuss
Northern Light Group, LLC
Voice: 617-674-2074
Fax: 617-674-2076

www.northernlight.com