Search Industry--Northern Light
Search Industry--Yahoo Northern Light and Yahoo Form Strategic Alliance
From the news release, "Northern Light(R) Technology (http://www.NorthernLight.com) today announced a strategic alliance with Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company, to make available its premium content and search services to existing and future customers of the Corporate Yahoo!(TM)Enterprise Information Portal (http://corporate.yahoo.com)...Northern Light will provide access to its Special Collection(TM), an online business library of over 7,000 full-text sources, complementing the existing content and application modules on Corporate Yahoo!. The Special Collection is one of the largest collections of any online periodicals library, with over 60 million pages of information including thousands of trade journals, hundreds of newspapers, medical publications, academic journals, and newswires...Additionally, Corporate Yahoo! clients can expand their portal with Northern Light's SinglePoint(TM) service, which provides access to all of a company's information sources such as proposals and presentations in all of the major formats via a single user interface. Clients can incorporate internal content such as that contained in knowledge management systems, as well as third-party licensed content from leading market research vendors including The Yankee Group, AMI Partners, Frost & Sullivan and Jupiter. See Also: More on Changes to Yahoo Corporate Portal Services
Enterprise Search Tools
Source: InfoWorld "Search Technology Gains Recognition"
Here's hoping that companies that purchase these search products have people in place with not only technology skills but with knowledge of information organization. From the article, [Search] is an important issue for enterprises because there is so much content now, if [companies] don't have sophisticated way of finding that content, they are blowing their investments in the content," he [Guy Creese, research director at the Aberdeen Group] said. Companies mentioned in the article: Verity Smartlogik
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