NETg Expands Query Tool; NETg Search & Select

NETg, powering intelligent decisions through learning for global organizations, announced from its NETglobal 2001 conference that Search & Select, the natural language query service introduced in 2000, will have an expanded range of learning content available and can be installed on-site at customer locations. Search & Select allows workers to ask questions and receive brief, interactive learning sessions that provide necessary information or skills to improve work productivity. Search & Select will now deliver business and professional topics in addition to IT and desktop topics to provide a comprehensive range of answers. The service, previously only offered as a Web-hosted service, is now also offered for corporate installations.

"NETg customers want business results from their learning programs," said Gary Lopez, NETg's president and CEO. "NETg anticipates business needs and delivers innovative services such as Search & Select. Putting a broad range of high-quality, interactive learning behind a system that literally answers direct questions brings business results. Questions get answered immediately and work progress goes uninterrupted."

NETg's Search & Select is an intelligent service capable of "learning" based on interaction with users. The service uses neural networks to learn in the same way that the human brain learns - by experience. The business benefit is that answers retrieved through Search & Select will be highly attuned to the organization using it.

The NETg Search & Select service capitalizes on NETg's unique modular architecture, the Learning Object. This approach to learning structure, long associated with NETg's IT and Desktop content, has recently been applied to the award-winning NETg business and professional - "soft skills" - content. This now makes it possible for Search & Select to provide answers to technical and non-technical business issues from a repository of over 75,000 learning objects.

"Corporate executives rely on all employees to make intelligent decisions every day", said Lopez. "Until now, employees had to interrupt work sessions and delay progress while they gained necessary skills or vital information. Search & Select liberates employees from inflexible learning options and enables better decisions across all corporate functions."

About NETg

NETg, a subsidiary of Boston-based Harcourt General Inc, is powering intelligent decisions through learning for the Global 2000. The company has a portfolio of over 1,000 courses in several languages, covering professional IT, desktop and personal development skills and serves over 4,000 customers worldwide. NETg's proven learning techniques are based on an innovative course architecture developed by NETg in the early 1990's - The NETg Learning Object (NLO). The company leads the industry with a full range of e-Learning solutions incorporating Internet services and interactivity with over 75,000 learning objects for leading companies such as Daimler-Chrysler, Honeywell, Proctor & Gamble and Dow Chemical. NETg's worldwide headquarters are located in Naperville, Illinois, USA. For more information visit NETg at www.netg.com.

Contact NETg, Bill Bonner, 630-637-8924, bbonner@netg.com.