Northern Light Group

History

The company is named after the clipper ship Northern Light, which held the speed record for the San Francisco to Boston voyage for nearly 150 years.

From its founding in 1996 until January 2002, Northern Light operated a Web search engine for public use, originally on the domain nlsearch.com. It was regarded at the time as innovative in provision of search based on classification and inclusion of both public and proprietary information resources. During this time period, Northern Light also developed private custom search engines for large corporate clients marketed under the trade name SinglePoint.

In 2002, Northern Light was acquired by Divine, Inc., an enterprise software company. Divine made 28 acquisitions, and Northern Light was the 17th. In 2003, an employee group bought the company from its parent and it is still employee-owned as of 2023 and SinglePoint is its main product line. According to the company's website, as of 2023 Northern Light has 250,000 users of its SinglePoint platform at its corporate clients.

References

References

1. (November 15, 1999). "Guiding Light". [[CIO magazine.
2. (29 July 2021). "KMWorld Names Northern Light to its AI50: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management 2021".
3. [http://northernlight.com/history.html northernlight.com: History]
4. O'Leary, Mick. (1 February 2007). "Northern Light: better the second time around?". Information Today.
5. Rosenberg, Ronald. (30 June 1999). "Godsend -- and a threat Northern Light gets praise from users, criticism from publishers threatened by research-engine service". Boston Globe.