Apr 16 2008
Northern Light Launches Business News Search Portal
Today we announced the release of Northern Light Search (http://www.nlsearch.com) - the only free search engine of business news and industry authority blogs that also offers powerful, automated meaning extraction capabilities and collaborative social computing features.
Northern Light Search allows business researchers to search relevant business and industry news from thousands of business news sources, leading business publications, and hand-selected industry authority blogs. Researchers can automatically also analyze their results to extract meaning from the articles discovered in the search. In the context of business-centric search, meaning extraction determines what information is contained in the documents on a search results list, such as companies, markets and technologies; suggests what business issues the documents address; assesses the tone of the documents; and directs the researcher to the documents that are most interesting based on their meaning rather than on their statistically-derived search relevance.
The social computing, or Web 2.0, features included in Northern Light Search are a Market Intelligence Wiki and a series of “widgets” that leverage the search activity of the Northern Light Search community. These search widgets include tag clouds of most popular search terms and lists of the most popular articles accessed by other researchers. Other widgets leverage MI Analyst to show the most mentioned entities in the news - the most mentioned business issues, the most mentioned IT technologies, and the most mentioned venture funded companies. Northern Light’s internet librarians have seeded the Market Intelligence wiki by scouring news and industry sources for authoritative news, analysis and commentary to create comprehensive, concise wiki sites for a dozen industries.
