Northern Light Group

[1] The company provides custom, hosted turnkey solutions for its clients using the software as a service (SaaS) delivery model.

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

[4][5] During this time period, Northern Light also developed private custom search engines for large corporate clients marketed under the trade name SinglePoint.