40 million Web sites containing 830 million Web pages
Written on September 27th, 2025 by Tech Ads
Taken from: Wired (Volume 7, Issue 12 (December 1999))
‘Northernlight.com’ was a dot-com era search engine that provided dynamic ‘folder-like’ groupings of search results. ‘Northernlight.com’ provided results from both the open web and, for an additional fee, a collection of specialist periodicals. Positively reviewed by PC Magazine, in early 2000 it claimed to have the biggest search index - outranking Google in size by around 40%. In 1999 NorthernLights.com ran on Compaq OpenVMS AlphaServers.
In 2002 Northernlight.com’s parent company exited the public search space to concentrate on the private corporate search field.
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