Northern Light To Stop Providing Publicly Available Search Engine

[gary price <gprice@gwu.edu>]

Good Morning From D.C.

Another crawled database is set to disappear from public view. ):

Word this A.M. that Northern Light will stop making their free web search engine
available to the public on January 16th. The
NL Special Collection material (pay-per-view) articles will still be available.

A Bit of Good News
------------------------
NL's current news search (56 newswires) and search alerts will continue to be
publicly available for free according to a NL
spokesperson. The same is true with NL's Special Editions.


From the news release,
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/220082145
or
http://library.northernlight.com/FB20020108420000192.html

"As of January 16, 2002, the company will no longer be providing free Web search
capabilities to the general public. Northern
Light's Special Collection(TM), an online business library of over 70 million
pages of full-text, authoritative content from
more than 7,100 sources, will continue to be offered to enterprise customers and
to the public from Northern Light's Web site.
Additionally, the company will offer Web searching to enterprise customers.
Northern Light will continue to maintain and
update its index of more than 350 million Web pages to provide enterprise
customers with search of the Web using Northern
Light's patented classification technology, and will continue offering custom Web
searching for enterprise customers."


cheers,
gary

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Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
Gary Price Library Research and Internet Consulting
gprice@gwu.edu

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