(Continued)     October 16, 2004 edition
In other news, America Online is said to be developing its own desktop search technology for the AOL Browser (beta version), expected to be ready in a few days. AOL's entry into the space pits it directly against rival Microsoft Corp., which has designs for a desktop search engine of its own. AOL Desktop Search is one of many value-added features shoring up America Online's upcoming alternative Web browser, currently code-named AOL Browser.

AOL Browser is a stand-alone application based upon Internet Explorer and is independent from AOL's client software. Although AOL Browser shares the same underlying engine as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, many features more commonly found in AOL's Netscape brand can be found in the release. These additions include tabbed browsing, a pop-up blocker and toolbar buttons that produce thumbnails of Web pages when users hover over them.

In other news, Northern Light released a new version of its business search engine available to individual users as well as to enterprises. The new version, called the Northern Light Business Research Engine, is available at http://www.nlresearch.com/.

The Business Research Engine searches 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 and from 1,400 trade journals with the full-text and all the graphics, charts, and tables are available from the articles.

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