Overview: Northern Light is a large scale search engine which index the web and traditional media

Northern Light opened its search engine in late 1997, but as a late competitor to the search engine market, it offers access to documents that are particularly popular with researchers including access to magazines, newspapers and other non public resources which can be purchased for a nominal fee. Regular public websites are searchable for free. In addition to web searches, Northern Light offers Industry, News, Investment and other types of specific searches. Recent studies have shown that Northern Light indexes over 140 million documents, making it the largest search engine.

Northern Light

http://www.northernlight.com (New window opens)

Spidering	Northern Light will spider or follow all links it finds on your website and index them into their database. You can control the degree of spidering through a standardized robots governing file or META tags [See Robots Generator]
Full Text Index	Northern Light makes use of scanning the full text that is on the webpage when indexing
Popularity Counts	If lots of websites link to your site, then your site will be ranked higher in Northern Light's rankings.
Additional Information	Northern Light indexes all visible text, frames and image maps but does not support HTML comments, META Tags nor ALT image tags.
Submission Time	Getting listed in Northern Light takes 2-4 weeks.

Automated Submission Tool	Use our Submission Tool to submit your site to all the major search engines
META Tag Generator	Create better META Tags with our META Tag Generator
Manual Submission	Submit your site directly [External Link]