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GaryN
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Posted: 03/27/2002 03:08 pm
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I just checked to see if a client was listed in Northern Light, and it looks to me like NL has ceased to be a public search engine for the Web. Instead it appears to only allow me to search in these categories, but "Web" or "Search the Web" does not appear as a category in their pull down menu:
- Special Collection
- Investex Reports
- MarkIntel Market Research
- Archived News
- NY Times
- Business Week
- Forbes
- The Economist
- World Media Abstract: Europe
- World Media Abstract: U.S.

I've poked around their site, but do not see a clear mission statement indicating that they've stopped being an SE. Does anyone know what's going on here?

If it's no longer an SE, can anyone see any point in submitting to them?

GaryN



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Posted: 03/27/2002 03:26 pm
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You are correct there is no reason to be concerned with Northern Light anymore.

Northern Light (after being purchased by a company named divine inc: http://www.divine.com/ ) has eliminated their public search services to focus on "premium" search services where users pay for the documents they access. Here is an example of it in use via a partnership with Yahoo ...
http://premium.search.yahoo.com/search/premium/splash





patrickh
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Posted: 04/05/2002 09:17 am
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Yep they are gone from the search engine world, last time I checked they provided documents in the results for a pay-per-document scheme (like $5 to read each result).


 
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