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Note that from January 2002 the Northern Light search engine is no longer open to the general public. You may use the news search engine, though.

Links to advanced searching	Northern Light
Home page	www.northernlight.com
Will search in…	www news-articles and more
Default search	AND
Case sensitive	Fuzzy case sensitivity. Will find all pages with the query term words regardless of capitalisation, but will rank capitalised results higher if user capitalised the words in the query term.
Natural language queries	Yes
Spell check	No
Translates pages into another language	No
SYNTAX	Northern Light
Find pages that have one or more of these words	dog OR cat
Find pages that contain all these words	+dog +cat or dog AND cat
Find pages that contain the first, but not the last, word	dog -cat or dog NOT cat
Find pages that contain the following exact phrase	"raining cats and dogs"
Find pages that contain these words in near proximity of each other	No
Find pages that contain words that starts with the following letters (joker-signs, truncation, wildcard)	dog* finds "dog", "dogs", "doghouse" etc. or d%g (for one and only one letter) finds "dig", "dog", "dug"
Nesting (Use of parentheses)	Kennedy AND (Robert OR John) finds all pages that contains the words Kennedy and Robert and all pages that contain the words Kennedy and John
FIELD SEARCH	Northern Light
Find pages that have the following http-address (or parts of address)	URL:www.dog.com or use advanced menu
Find pages under the following domain	or use advanced menu
Find pages that contain images with names that contains the following word	No
Find pages that contain links to the following address	No
Find pages that contain the follwing word in the title	TITLE:dog or use advanced menu
Find pages that contain the following text anywhere in the HTML-code	text:dog AND cat
Find pages written in a particular language	Use adanced menu
Find pages made in the following time period	Use advanced menu
FIELD SEARCH USENET NEWSGROUPS	Northern Light
Find this newsgroup	No
Find this text in the subject field of newsgroup messages	No
Find messages that are written by the following	No
Find messages that are dated…	No
More information on advanced searching	Northern Light Powersearch help Learn how to optimize your search UC Berkeley tutorial

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