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Bright Station PLC
21 June 2001

Smartlogik Iberia launched with $500,000 order from Germinus

London 21 June 2001:  Smartlogik, a leader in customized information discovery
solutions and core business of Bright Station plc (LSE:  BSN; NASDAQ: BSTN),
today announces a $500,000 order from Germinus, a leading Spanish provider of
business solutions for the telecommunications, electronics and media sectors,
and the formation of Smartlogik Iberia.  Germinus has been appointed as Master
Reseller of Smartlogik in the Spanish and Portuguese markets.

Germinus will not only offer Smartlogik's muscatstructure(TM),
muscatdiscovery(TM), and muscattoolbox(TM) as stand alone information retrieval
solutions to organisations throughout Spain and Portugal, but the Smartlogik
solutions will also be used as integral components of Germinus' ASP offering,
Xscala.  Xscala is a comprehensive infrastructure solution for Application
Service Providers that incorporates Sun hardware, Sybase database applications,
Smartlogik information retrieval technologies within Germinus' own ASP
management software.

Stephen Hill, Chief Executive of Smartlogik, said:

"The Germinus partnership is very exciting for us.  It extends our reach into
Southern Europe, helping us to open up the Business Intelligence market for
Smartlogik.  This is an excellent example of our strategic partnership
programme - a core element of Smartlogik's growth strategy - at work."

Vicente Martinez, Chief Executive Officer of Germinus said:

"The Business Intelligence arena is going through a period of explosive growth
and we recognised that we needed to extend our solution in order to capitalise
on the market opportunities.  We researched other companies but it became
clear very quickly that Smartlogik's technology is way ahead of its
competitors.  Smartlogik is known for its excellence in artificial
intelligence as well as people expertise. The ease of use and tailorability of
the software enables us to provide the bespoke solutions our customers
demand."

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For further information, please contact:

Stephen Hill
Chief Executive, Smartlogik                               020 7930 6900

Campbell Macpherson                                       020 7930 6900
Marketing Director, Smartlogik

John Olsen/Tom Leatherbarrow
Hogarth Partnership (for Bright Station / Smartlogik)     020 7357 9477


Notes to Editor

Smartlogik (www.smartlogik.com)

Smartlogik is a leading provider of customized information retrieval
solutions, enabling organizations to exploit the full business value of their
information assets.

Unlike many competitive offerings, Smartlogik's latest generation search and
categorisation software is tailored to meet the unique requirements of each
customer, thus providing organizations with search results that are far more
accurate and precise.

Smartlogik operates a multi-channel strategy consisting of a direct sales
force, a Strategic Partners program, a Value Added Reseller program and a
consultancy arm.

Smartlogik customers include Ananova, the Bank of England, BBC, the British
Library, the Daily Telegraph, Dialog, the Department of Trade and Industry
(DTI), Fortune City, Hansard, the Lafferty Group. Legal and General, Yellow
Pages, the Danish Foreign Ministry and the World Conservation Monitoring
Centre.

Smartlogik strategic partners include IBM, Sun, Horizon Open Systems, iCore,
Norcontrol and Germinus.

Smartlogik's unique searching and categorisation technologies originate from
two different sources:

The search technology, muscatdiscovery, stemmed from Dr Martin Porter's work
with a special research team at Cambridge University. This team investigated
new information retrieval paradigms and included fellow information retrieval
experts Professor Keith Van Rijsbergen and Professor Stephen Robertson. The
techniques developed by the team moved beyond traditional keyword matching
towards a pure probabilistic information retrieval model based on contextual
analysis of language.

The indexing technology, muscatstructure, originated from the need to search
across multiple sources of information. MAID, an information processing
pioneer, developed the tool for categorising terabytes of information. This
technology is currently employed by Thompson Corporation to service the
information needs of 20,000+ organisations.

Germinus (www.germinus.com)

Germinus is a Spanish business group belonging to the new technology sector.
Germinus provides business solutions for the telecommunications, electronics
and media sectors. Three key companies form the Germinus Group: Germinus
Solutions, professional services; Xcala, an ASP Platform and
Tecnipublicaciones, the content provider.

The group's core activity is in developing innovative projects helping them to
become profitable businesses.   The company's philosophy combines three main
principles: maximum development in the area of technology, innovative services
and a combination of online and offline business projects.  Germinus seeks to
become the leader in the development of businesses based in last generation
technologies.

Since its formation, the Germinus Group has given great emphasis to business
innovation and the use of technology.  The company develops the necessary
technology to offer the most advanced applications in CRM, billing, voice
navigation, artificial intelligence and transaction tools.  Furthermore, the
group boasts a team of professionals able to offer platform design services
for fixed and mobile phone network operators (from network deployment to the
design and implementation of the architecture of services).

The Germinus Group's long term strategy is to continue to broaden its
portfolio of products and services.  Working with a technology partner such as
Smartlogik, Germinus is able to offer a wide range of solutions to companies
wishing to capitalise on a business intelligence strategy.

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