Nstein to Maximize the Value of Bizjournals Web-based Content

2001-12-27

Bizjournals looks to deploy nserver software to help customers find what they're looking for.

Montreal, December 27, 2001 - Nstein Technologies Inc. "Nstein" (CDNX: EIN), a Montreal-based developer of innovative linguistic intelligence business solutions, has entered into an agreement with Bizjournals.com "Bizjournals" to enrich the user experience. Bizjournals is a subsidiary of American City Business Journals, Inc., the North America's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers, serving 40 of the most active markets in the United States.

"We are constantly evaluating solutions which enhance the online use of our business data. Our local news, Book of Lists and local sales leads data are invaluable resources for our business users. The Nstein solution enables our technical and editorial teams to build onsite expertise in categorizing our content and packaging relevant new products and services for our customers." Bizjournals Executive Vice President, Tim Bradbury goes on to say, "We're excited to be working with Nstein, from validation through acceptance and deployment of new services for our customers."

"Bizjournals is a an ideal Nstein customer as our technology lends itself perfectly to their needs" explained Mario Girard, President and CEO of Nstein, "As an example, the nfinder and nlikethis features within our nserver" software will allow Bizjournals users to quickly navigate to pertinent information on companies and related business topics. These features will create 'site stickiness" for Bizjournals, intelligently exposing their products and advertising properties to these same users."

About nserver™ software

nserver™ is an intelligent Computer-Aided Indexing (CAI) software platform that automatically categorizes, classifies and summarizes large volumes of unstructured text using Nstein's core Linguistic DNATM technology. The tool is designed for electronic information managers and distributors requiring CAI, a market estimated to be worth over US$1.5 billion by 2002 in North America alone.

About Bizjournals.com

Bizjournals.com, a subsidiary of American City Business Journals, offers a daily assortment of top business stories, business data and how-to information from business journals across the nation. Organized as 40 market-specific sites, Bizjournals.com lets visitors stay within their market of interest while giving them the ability to scan multiple other markets in an efficient, cohesive manner. Visitors can also find small business tools such as demographic information and downloadable sales leads from each market on the site.

American City Business Journals, Inc. is the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers, serving 40 of the country's most vibrant markets. The company employs more than 550 business journalists to provide exclusive, in-depth coverage of their business communities to approximately 3.2 million readers.


About Nstein Technologies

Nstein Technologies is a public company listed on the Canadian Venture Exchange. The company develops and markets innovative content management software solutions based on linguistic artificial intelligence. Nstein's nserver" software solution automates time-consuming and complex tasks such as content classification as well as XML tagging and summarization. The company's products provide a revolutionary leap in effectiveness and cost reduction for e-publishers, portals, CRM solutions and e-marketplaces. Nstein's intensive research in computational linguistics has resulted in Linguistic DNA" technology'which combines the strengths of linguistic and statistical analysis (used by our competitors) with artificial intelligence.

For further information on Nstein Technologies Inc., please visit www.nstein.com. For further information on Bizjournals.com, please visit www.bizjournals.com

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