Northern Light, a provider of custom enterprise, industry, and Web search engines, has released a new version of its business search engine, which is available to individual users in addition to enterprises. The new version is called the Northern Light Business Research Engine.

Customizable Search Alerts, a new feature in the Business Research Engine, allow users to save any search and be updated daily whenever the news, journals, or Business Web content has new material that matches their interests. Additionally, users can customize the Business Research Engine by adding Web sites that they frequently review for industry information to the database for full-text searching.