Corporate users of science and technology too latched on to his services. Pharmaceutical giants like Cipla and Ranbaxy made extensive use of it. Unlike the Internet, almost all the on-line service providers used proprietary, but highly structured systems. And they contained very powerful and focussed search engines. That, explains Sathyanarayana was one of the prime reasons for such services being highly efficient, despite, lacking 4GLs and running on mainframes.
Internet is highly unstructured.
In 1990, when Informatics was in a position to create contents all by itself, its first project was to abstract journals.