Typical Search: yesword AND (maybeword OR "maybe phrase") NOT noword
Default Operator: AND
Boolean: (details) AND or +, OR, NOT or -, " ", *, %, and nesting using parenthesis ( )
      Northern Light also supports natural language queries
Case Sensitivity: not case sensitive, but odd cases will rank higher if that is what you searched for
Word Stemming: yes, searching for cheese will return the same results as cheeses
Stop Words: not used. Put quotes around boolean operators if you want them to be words
Special Keywords: (details) URL:, TITLE:, PUB:, COMPANY:, TICKER, TEXT, RECID, SORT:date
Index: one of the largest; about 350 million web pages
Unique: special collection, custom search folders, search alerts
Customize: none, but there are search alerts
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Northern Light is one of the older search engines around. It is not one of the most popular ones, however it is one of the best. It is one of few today which support full boolean searching, it has topic clustering, and it lets you create search alerts which e-mail you when new documents are found for your searches. Northern Light is the only search engine which includes documents not found anywhere else; they call it their Special Collection of over 7,100 publications. Each article requires a small fee, usually several dollars.

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