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HIGHBEAM™ RESEARCH ANNOUNCES SUITE OF TOOLS TO HELP BLOGGERS BUILD BETTER BLOGS

HighBeam Blog Enhancer and HighBeam RSS allow bloggers to track, search and share HighBeam Research content within blogs or websites.

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NOTE TO READERS: To see a more creative, "blogged" version of this press release, including examples of how the new Blog Enhancer tool works, go to www.highbeam.com/about/release.asp?id=34.

CHICAGO – APRIL 14, 2005 – Resource or rumor mill? The burgeoning blogosphere, designed to share opinions and information, can be both – often containing links to sources readers don't know. But with the first-ever suite of blogging tools launched by an online publisher, HighBeam Research™ ( www.highbeam.com) is giving millions of bloggers a more trustworthy voice and blog readers a more credible resource.

HighBeam Research Blog Enhancer makes it easy for bloggers to improve their blogs by incorporating content from the HighBeam Research Engine's collection of 33 million articles not typically found on the web, including those from 3,000 respected newspaper, magazine, book, journal and transcript publishers.

To share their research, bloggers need only click the "Blog this Article" link found within previews and articles on HighBeam Research and at their option create a custom welcome message, add an excerpt from and include notes about any article. HighBeam Research then provides the HTML code ready for pasting into a blog for a robust citation for the article – including title, publication, excerpt from and a link to the blogger's personalized page on HighBeam Research that includes the article preview or full-text article.

In addition to sharing citations and notes, bloggers who are HighBeam Research Full Members (who pay a monthly or annual subscription fee) can share full-text articles with their readers – even with readers who are not members of HighBeam Research. Readers can access full text for seven days from the time of posting, after which blog readers will still see the citation and article abstract, which do not expire. Bloggers who are HighBeam Basic Members (free membership) have the ability to share article previews.

The suite of blogging tools also includes HighBeam RSS, which enables users to track dynamically created topics. RSS feeds can easily be created based on keywords and/or by publication and users will receive an update in their favorite RSS reader as soon as new articles related to their research are added to the HighBeam Research Engine.

Patrick Spain, founder, chairman and CEO of HighBeam Research said, "Our research indicates that many individual researchers want to comment on and share information they find online. We think it's important that the estimated 8 million blogs in existence today be able to include links to credible premium information – unavailable elsewhere on the Web – as easily as they link to any free information. By letting our members blog 33 million premium articles, we can expand our reach by introducing blog readers to the HighBeam Research online research environment."

Michelle Manafy, editor of Econtent magazine and the Intranets newsletter, said, "Nothing's worse than finding an article online that you want to share with someone, linking to it from an email or blog post and then finding out that people trying to click through hit a wall – be it subscription or registration based. The cool thing about digital pass-along is the almost immediate gratification factor. HighBeam Research not only gets the idea that sharing is caring, they are maximizing the power of viral marketing."

Dana Sanders, author of a blog called The HomeBiz Toolbox (www.thehomebiztoolbox.com) said, "The HighBeam Research Blog Enhancer allows me to tap into an incredible wealth of targeted and relevant information specifically suited to my niche topic. I especially appreciate the entire arsenal of articles and research tools in one location that covers every subject imaginable."

More information on the HighBeam Blog Enhancer is available at img.highbeam.com/AprilNews.html.

About HighBeam™ Research, Inc.
HighBeam™ Research, Inc. operates an online research engine for individuals, filling the gap between free search engines and high-end information services. By delivering sophisticated research tools with convenient access to the free Web, paid online services and its proprietary HighBeam Library archive, HighBeam Research empowers individual researchers to efficiently find, organize and share answers. HighBeam Research is located at www.highbeam.com.