NetCurrents Launches Nasdaq-100 Sentiment Monitoring

NetCurrents Inc, "The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency," announced that it has launched a unique free service on its corporate Web site -- netcurrents.com -- for individuals, investment community professionals and the media that monitors in real time positive, negative or neutral Internet sentiment shared by online participants about individual companies in the Nasdaq-100 Index.

Based on the company's patent-pending proprietary technology enabling real-time scanning of more than 63,000 Internet sites, the first-ever service will continuously monitor, display and quantify in a graphic format the combined overall Internet sentiment for the select group of 100 Nasdaq-traded companies that make up the Index.

According to NetCurrents Chairman and CEO Irwin Meyer, "Internet attitudes and perceptions regarding the Nasdaq-100 Index as a whole are presented in an easy-to-read graphical display. The site also displays graphically those Index companies that are perceived most and least favorably. As an added analytical tool, the Index site displays the difference, within three percent, in the volume of positive and/or negative messages received on a particular company today compared with yesterday."

The NetCurrents Nasdaq-100 monitoring service will also supply such specific data as the Nasdaq-100 company that is most discussed on the Internet at any given moment and the message boards generating the most positive and negative comments, respectively. And with a simple click, a user can call up by ticker symbol or name any one of the Nasdaq-100 companies for its real-time sentiment report.

"A recent survey conducted by the National Association of Investors Corporation," Meyer continued, "showed that 95 percent of individual investors polled rated the Internet as their most important source of information. We believe that investors, investment community professionals and market watchers can use real-time Internet sentiment information about the Nasdaq-100 as part of an informed investment decision or to help analyze, moment by moment, conditions and trends in the stock market as a whole."

The monitoring of the Nasdaq-100 for Internet perceptions and attitudes uses NetCurrents' proprietary, real-time Internet search technology, F.I.R.S.T. (Fast Internet Real-Time Search Technology) and the WebMind Artificial Intelligence engine to dynamically monitor and analyze a targeted Internet universe. It gathers and analyzes the information in real time based on a defined set of parameters, displaying graphically an analysis of attitudes and perceptions presented continuously in updated bar charts.

This product is the first of its kind to combine Internet search technology with artificial intelligence to provide real-time automated sentiment analysis of Internet communications.

About NetCurrents Inc

NetCurrents, "The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency," monitors and analyzes communications from the Internet in real time. The company provides clients with critical information and counsel to protect their corporate image, measure consumers' perceptions, and counter misinformation on the Internet. Due to the sensitivity of businesses that require this type of technology and analysis, the confidentiality of NetCurrents' clients is assured.

For more information about NetCurrents products and services, contact the company at 650-401-3200 and for information about the company, visit its Web site at www.netcurrents.com.