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Northern Light Group, LLC
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - June 7th, 2006 - Northern Light^®, a provider of custom enterprise, industry, and Web search engines, announced today that it is providing a custom Web crawl of more than 10,000 selected life sciences, health care, and pharmaceutical websites for Nervana's new Discovery Solution 3.0. Northern Light crawls, filters, and summarizes 1.5 million pages of content every day for Nervana. The selection of the websites for inclusion in the crawl was a joint effort of Northern Light's editorial team (which had already classified tens of thousands of websites by industry for Northern Light's Business Web™ search engine) and Nervana's content experts.

The full text of the Nervana press release on the new relationship appears below.

Nervana Expands Life Sciences Content for Semantic Knowledge Discovery

Nervana Discovery Solution 3.0 builds on News, Patent, Medline and Custom Content with addition of more than 10,000 life sciences organizations through Northern Light

BELLEVUE, WA � June 7, 2006
Nervana, a leading knowledge discovery technology company, today announced further expansion of the content available for semantic knowledge discovery through its newly introduced Nervana Discovery Solution 3.0 With Nervana Discovery 3.0, the world's most scientifically advanced and intelligent natural language query and knowledge mining system, workers in life sciences and related markets can achieve unprecedented speed, efficiency and insight in data query across the broadest range of data sets and ontologies. In addition to physical and semantic content sources on general and life sciences news, patents, Medline and custom content, Nervana has concluded an agreement with Northern Light to deliver world-wide Web content for more than 10,000 biotech and pharmaceutical companies, research hospitals, educational institutions, government sites, trade associations, and other life science related organizations. The additional Web content provides a comprehensive discovery process of valuable, deep content published on the Web. Nervana's broad content offerings and unique product packages allow employees in research, marketing, legal, business development and human resources to dramatically speed knowledge discovery and improve business processes and ROI.

"Effective knowledge discovery and mining is a critical task for any knowledge worker in today's highly competitive Life Sciences industry, yet the quantity and complexity of data can be overwhelming," noted Nosa Omoigui, Chairman and CEO of Nervana, Inc. "As a result, companies need both the best possible search and discovery technology and access to the most relevant content, both internal and external. With the Nervana Discovery Solution 3.0 we are pushing the envelope of what it's possible to do in semantic query, while at the same time delivering the broadest range of industry-specific content and ontologies on the market � all geared toward quickly turning data into knowledge."

"With the explosion of digital content on the Web, it's extremely time-consuming for a knowledge worker to cut through the clutter and mine the content efficiently," said David Seuss, CEO of Northern Light. "As a result, there is much undiscovered information unless the researcher has a comprehensive and integrated view of the entire content set available from all the world's relevant sources. With Nervana, a researcher can view and query all their data sources in a unified experience."

The Nervana Discovery Solution significantly improves both the front end user query/discovery experience and the backend processing of data from multiple, specialized or proprietary data domains and information repositories. At the interface level, knowledge workers can � for the first time � instantly build appropriate natural-language semantic queries and quickly review the most relevant, timely results. The Nervana engine processes these searches across multiple ontologies as well as across multiple physical and semantic content sources � both online and proprietary � providing on-the-fly improvements in business efficiency, effectiveness and ROI.

Content for the Nervana Discovery Solution includes general and industry-specific news feeds, comprehensive patent databases, Medline query, custom or proprietary information repositories and, with the new Northern Light agreement, a wide range of life sciences Web content. Businesses can now quickly generate business intelligence reports and answer questions such as, "Which research institutions are our competitors partnering with most aggressively? What is the co-authoring amongst all of our top competitors and various scientific research institutions? What new licensing opportunities exist for monoclonal antibodies used in autoimmune disease therapy?" These are just a few examples of sophisticated business queries that are possible with Nervana's Discovery Solution.

Nervana also offers a range of product packages designed to facilitate specific business functions, including drug discovery, business, licensing or marketing intelligence and IP/patent research. Researchers can drag-and-drop a published research paper to instantly create a query for monitoring related developments; marketing or business staff can conduct ongoing queries into promising target markets, industry trends or competitive developments; legal departments can track changing interpretations of government regulations, patent litigation, new filings, FDA approvals, etc. With the Nervana Discovery Solution 3.0, these employees can create queries on-the-fly, monitor new developments in real-time and instantly collaborate with co-workers around the latest information.

About Nervana Inc.
Nervana Inc. is a leading knowledge discovery technology company. Nervana is the only provider that offers its customers a full-range portfolio of knowledge discovery solutions, from intellectual property (patent) to industry specific ontology products for industries with dense multiple data sources and complex structures. The robust functionality, true semantic search, and cross indexing of ontologies can condense knowledge discovery to mere seconds, a task that would take years or decades with other available search tools.

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About Northern Light^®
Northern Light (www.northernlight.com), provides custom enterprise, industry, and Web search engines for enterprises and individuals. Established in 1996, our products include the Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine, the Northern Light Business Research Engine featuring Market Intelligence Centers, SinglePoint™ Custom Market Research Portals, as well as search application professional services including both development, and hosting for custom search engines. Northern Light has built and installed over 200 custom enterprise search and market intelligence applications for leading organizations, and provides business research content solutions to over a hundred thousand employees of our enterprise customers every day. All products use Northern Light's patented, proprietary clustering engine, classification engine, and subject taxonomy.

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For information about Northern Light products and services, or to request an enterprise trial, contact Northern Light at www.northernlight.com. The Business Research Engine may be found at www.nlresearch.com, and to preview Northern Light's Market Intelligence Centers covering dozens of industries visit www.CenterForMarketIntelligence.com.

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For additional information contact:
C. David Seuss
Northern Light Group, LLC
Voice: 617-674-2074
Fax: 617-674-2076

www.northernlight.com