Northern Light

Pros: Many search options, easy to use
Cons: no filter and no mp3 search

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....

Pros: Place to go when you are doing research
Cons: Not an engine for finding multimedia

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...

Pros: very robust and targeted search capabilities
Cons: few

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...

Pros: Has everything a search engine could offer
Cons: ...except sports scores 8-(

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...

Pros: relevant results
Cons: some special collection documents are pretty expensive for the amount of information you get

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...

Pros: great
Cons: not as good as yahoo

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...

Pros: Best advanced search, great for researching and school.
Cons: None really...

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...

Pros: It knows more web pages than any other search engines.
Cons: Must know syntax to use it effectively

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...

Pros: Relevant results, pre-sorting, great usability of the site
Cons: Sometimes susceptible to spam, Special collection documents might annoy you if that's all you got in your search

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...

Pros: Northern Light is simple in its use; great for locating articles
Cons: Limited focus-- Northern Light emphasizes articles; Special Collection Documents are sold

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...

Pros: Great classification, serious research options
Cons: Has advertising

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...

Pros: clear results
Cons: ????

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...

Pros: Fast, easy to use
Cons: Website is a little plain

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,...

Pros: Fast, finds hard to find links
Cons: only search through results page by page

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...

Pros: Intelligent groupings in the folders, usually gives me what I am looking for.
Cons: Too many comercial sites, not enough personal web pages.

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...