Northern Light and Billboard Launch Music Search
Posted on June 30, 1998
BPI Communications Inc., publisher of Billboard, and Northern Light Technology, LLC, announced the creation of a music information research engine. The Billboard Music Search is accessible by clicking on the Music Information Search icon on the Billboard website. This new service allows visitors to access content from BPI entertainment publications, articles from Northern Light's research library and other music websites.
Visitors to the site can search on any music-related subject, and narrow their search by source, date or document type. Searchers can choose to exclude personal pages or limit their search to specific document types such as press releases or job listings. The partnership also adds the BPI Entertainment News Wire, which includes articles and other features from Billboard, Musician, Music & Media, Amusement Business, The Hollywood Reporter, Back Stage and other BPI publications to Northern Light's Special Collection research library.
"Northern Light has combined its powerful Web directory with its authority as the most comprehensive content aggregator anywhere," said John Morgan, BPI's vice president of electronic media. "The result is a music resource on the Web that filters out the junk and consistently fetches the treasures."
