BizProLink.com Signs Agreement With Northern Light Technology to Offer the World's Largest and Most Comprehensive Search Engine of 20 Million Articles and 6,700 Premium Sources.Business/High Tech Editors Northern Light Selected As The Primary Online Information Resource for BizProLink's Scalable Network of 124 Communities-of-Commerce CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & BOCA RATON Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2000 BizProLink.com (www.bizprolink.com), an Internet Business Service Provider (iBSP), supporting the needs of businesses within 124 industry sectors, and Northern Light Technology, Inc., (www.NorthernLight.com and www.NLResearch.com), a leading Internet search engine, today announced that they've signed a strategic partner agreement. Together, the two companies will offer BizProLink.com members with direct access to the Northern Light Special Collection* of over 20 million articles from 6,700 titles. In addition, BizProLink.com users will have access to Northern Light for Web searches, helping ensure that they receive comprehensive and well-organized results. BizProLink.com (www.bizprolink.com), an Internet Business Service Provider (iBSP), is building the Internet's largest and most scalable network of business services across its portfolio of 124 industry-specific Communities-of-Commerce. All 124 BizProLink vertical communities begin serving end-user businesses in Q4 2000. Industry communities include Computing & Electronics, Construction & Real Estate, Medical & Pharmaceutical, Energy & Mining and others. In addition to the comprehensive listing of links and tools within each industry-specific community, BizProLink's end users will have access to the most comprehensive Web database available and a full-text business library of over 6,700 sources. From the homepage or within any of the 124 industry communities, users can select to search just the Web or Everywhere which includes access to Northern Light's Special Collection and titles such as Engineering News Record, American Banker American Banker is a daily newspaper covering the financial services industry. Founded in 1835 and based in New York, American Banker's 70 reporters and editors in six cities monitor developments and breaking news affecting banks. , and market research and investment reports from FIND/SVP, MarkIntel, and Investext. Using Northern Light's patented technology, search results are organized to help the searcher more quickly find what they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. . "We are very excited about our alliance with Northern Light because of their leadership in search engine technologies and their solid reputation for innovation in their field," says Steven R. Sponder, Founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BizProLink.com. "This alliance is an important element in BizProLink's strategy to provide small and medium business users with best in class online tools." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Jeff Cooper Jeff Cooper may refer to the following people:
Northern Light's strong online library of business and trade publications combined with our expansive Web database offer BizProLink.com users the best online information available." About Northern Light Northern Light Technology, Incorporated, headquartered in Cambridge, MA, was founded in 1997 by a seasoned team of librarians, software engineers, and information industry professionals who recognized the need to fill a void left by other search engines and online research services. The company first introduced its research engine (located at www.NorthernLight.com, www.NLResearch.com for businesses and researchers) in August 1997. Northern Light has received multiple Editors' Choice awards for superior search capabilities from PC Magazine and recently won three Codie Awards for "Online Business/Professional Service - Best Product", "Online Research Information - Best Product", and "Best Online Information Service of the Year" from the Software & Information Industry Association. Today, Northern Light's search engine is among the world's most comprehensive, indexing more than 240 million Web pages as well as over 50 million pages of business information not generally available on the Web from approximately 6,700 licensed business and news sources. About The BizProLink.com Business Services Network BizProLink.com owns and manages the Internet's largest and most scalable portfolio of Industry-Specific .com sites. By providing essential online business tools and e-Procurement services, BizProLink.com enables small and medium businesses to maximize profitability by reducing costs and increasing efficiencies. Each industry-specific portal function as a business user's default Home Page and important first "point-of-contact" for companies within the same industry. BizProLink continues to build its infrastructure applications within its portfolio of 124 Communities-of-Commerce, to provide ASP's with a mass audience of highly targeted business users. It will begin serving end-user businesses in Q4, 2000. BizProLink.com, Inc. is a VC funded company founded by former MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). (Microsoft Network See MSN. Microsoft Network - The Microsoft Network ) content partners who launched one of the Web's first B2B e-Commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. companies in 1995. To date, BizProLink has established strategic relationships with 32 of the Web's leading content, technology and ASP companies, including: BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq: BVSN BVSN Broadvision, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) Business Wire, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Investor (Nasdaq: CNET), MapQuest (Nasdaq: MQST), AccuWeather, TSCentral, BizBuyer, NationTaxOnline, SierraCities.com (Nasdaq:BTOB), Verio (Nasdaq:VRIO VRIO Virtual Reality Input Output ) and Northern Light Technology. |
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