Epinions Recent Reviews for Northern Light

Northern Light: Northern Light Sails On Down The Information Superhighway

Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:29:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kristalrose - I use the internet as my personal library. From

vegetarianism to pet care, I could stay online all day

reading something. That is the beauty of a good search

engine, it takes me where I want to go. Northern Light is

just such a...

Northern Light: Northern Light Bailed Me Out When ESPN.com Simply Bailed

Wed, 8 Aug 2001 04:15:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author neomartin - Given the changes in the way the Baseball Hall of Fame will elect future inductees, the sports media are having a field day which will last for a few days. Most people calling the sports radio station are calling to rip on the merits of some people...

Northern Light: Northern Light

Sun, 6 May 2001 02:21:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author digitalxero - This search engine is especially good for students in high school or college when they have to do a report for school. Search for whatever information you need and it will give you results like a regular search engine. But then it has on the left side of...

Northern Light: Keep it bookmarked

Tue, 24 Apr 2001 04:55:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dearll - When I first started on the internet, Metacrawler was my search engine. Was blown away by how it could process so much information in so little time. I then learned a few boolean operators like "quotation marks" and the + symbol which helped a lot...

Northern Light: Exact, categorized, full-text search

Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:23:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shanewho - With any reviews on web search engines, I always like to emphasize that search engines have their respective strengths and weaknesses, and they should be used according to the situation. One-size-fits-all simply is not an efficient way to use search...

Northern Light: Northern Light -- Term Papers Made Easy

Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:13:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bhweb22 - Northern Light is a different kind of engine. It is the first place that I would recommend for students writing papers or doctors (or patients) researching illnesses.

The one problem that I'd have with this site is that it might confuse new...

Northern Light: Need to find something, research it here!

Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:09:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jbhut - I have used various services and search engines and found that this search engine had some very good positives about it.

Power Search

The power search works like this: First you type in the name or something of what you are...

Northern Light: I see the light!

Sun, 3 Dec 2000 04:21:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mosleyfamily - I have probably used just about every search engine on the web. Some don't even come close to hitting your topic. Others give you a few choices and then drift off to other directions. Some don't even give you any results at all, but give you other...

Northern Light: Organized and Easy to Use

Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:23:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Spoontocal - Northern Light is the first search engine I go to whenever I need to locate information about anything.

What I like about it, is not only does it pull up exact information and forums, but to the left, it organizes other options in blue...

Northern Light: A orderly person's dream

Sat, 11 Nov 2000 02:33:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author longml - Having used many different search engines.....I find that I uses Northern Light the most of them all. The categorization of the subjects I am searching for saves time and fustration ( and scrollling). I have compared the results to other search engines...

Northern Light: Great for academics, and for other things

Thu, 19 Oct 2000 05:52:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author prostoalex - I don't know why Northern Light got that aura of academic/research search engine. Maybe it's because during its early days it was the best if you were writing a story, thesis or news article. Maybe because it is highly acclaimed by academicians, who are...

Northern Light: If its exists, you'll find it here.

Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:04:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author HHStrumpet - I search for a wide variety of web sites, and many times I come up empty handed. But Northern Light has always satisfied me. The search engine is very fast, and easy to use. Many times I search for something on different search engines and I get...

Northern Light: What is that light over there?

Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:22:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mouton - Northern Light is an excellent search engine. Its key strengths are when your initial search criteria are vague. It places your results in folders, so that you can structure your search logically. For example, if you search for ‘Bond’ you’ll get millions...

Northern Light: Will you marry me?

Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:42:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author genemi - Can you relate to this?!!

- slow search engines

- lots of junk pages coming up when you do valid searches

- the lack of simplicity in the search functions

- food+chain = 10000 pages shown

Well I can, and it's frustrated me,...

Northern Light: Excellent for new and for old

Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:15:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cswc44 - Northern Light is an excellent search engine. It is easy to use for those new to the Web but has numerous advanced features that make it appealing to advanced technophiles.

One advanced feature is the ability to do natural language...

Northern Light: A very bright, Northern Light is shining!!

Fri, 18 Aug 2000 20:06:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sohailg - Northern Light is one of the less popular, but more better search engines. There are engines like Mamma that have the popularity, but they do not always fulfill the user's query. As for Northern Light, it's a totally different thing...

Northern Light: it is gr8!!!!

Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:35:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mike2599 - This search engine is great! it has a lot of things that others don't have. For example, it has different searches like Simple Search, Business Search, Power Search, Investext Search, Search News and Geo Search! It also asks you to select a sourceto...

Northern Light: precise and easy to use

Sat, 12 Aug 2000 20:13:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author phynix1bmw - Northern Lights Search Engine is one of those search engines you see ads for on Television. This search engine I have used only a few times but everytime I have used it I have been impressed.

First, This search engine caters to businesses and...

Northern Light: What I Expect in a Search Engine

Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:32:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Cornell2000 - I'm getting sick of all of the standard search engines like AltaVista and Go.com returning basically the same rarely-useful results. Northern Light has the quality and configurability I expect from a search engine. However, most Internet users have...

Northern Light: Better than most

Wed, 2 Aug 2000 21:09:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author 311Bud - I'm always looking for a new "favorite search engine." Northern Light could just be that one for me. I first heard about it on TV, and it intrigued me. The way the commercial talked about "personal folders" seemed like they could...

Northern Light: I've Seen The Light!

Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:40:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author leegarson - There's a lot of crummy no-good search engine webpage out there. Northernlight.com is the complete opposite. With all of their different searches and the organization of the results, it will keep you coming back all the times you attempt to search for...

Northern Light: Why mess with anything else?

Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:01:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Besouro - While search engines such as Altavista have quietly morphed into "portal" sites over the past couple years, sacrificing search, relevance, and classification technology in order to become "personalized," Northern light has continued...

Northern Light: A light at the end of the Geocities-and-porn tunnel

Wed, 2 Aug 2000 05:27:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sleah - Northern Light is one of the few search engines that isn't suffering from an identity crisis. Rather than trying to be all things to all people (like, say, Yahoo) Northern Light caters its search engine and content to a very specific audience: the...