type search engine industry enterprise information portals founded 1996 headquarters cambridge massachusetts usa number of employees 55 website northernlight.com northern light group llc is a company specializing in strategic research portals enterprise search technology and text analytics solutions . the company provides custom hosted turnkey solutions for its clients using the software as a service saas delivery model . northern light markets its strategic research portals under the tradename singlepoint . typical applications for singlepoint strategic research portals are in market research competitive intelligence product management product development and technology research . northern light s client base consists of global companies that typically have more than 10 billion in annual sales . companies that have stated publicly that they use singlepoint research portals from northern light include hp verizon symantec sap and cisco . northern light has been picked for six years in a row as of 2009 as one of the 100 companies that matter in knowledge management by kmworld magazine . 1 according to the industry trade magazine information today northern light is innovating the automated analysis and extraction of meaning from large repositories of market intelligence documents . 2 history edit 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 . it was regarded as innovative in provision of search based on classification and inclusion of both public and proprietary information resources . 4 5 during this time period it also developed an enterprise offering of private custom search engines that it built for large corporate clients and marketed under the trade name singlepoint . in 2002 northern light discontinued its public search engine and was acquired by an enterprise software company . in 2003 an employee group bought the company from its parent and it is still employee owned as of 2010 and singlepoint is its main product line . in 2000 the company was the title sponsor for the indycar series . 6 references edit kmworld.com article information today northern light launches mi analyst may 7 2007 northernlight.com history o leary mick 1 february 2007 . northern light better the second time around . information today via highbeam research subscription required . retrieved 13 july 2013 . 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 via highbeam research subscription required . retrieved 13 july 2013 . schoettle anthony 23 october 2000 . irl in groove with northern light . indianapolis business journal via highbeam research subscription required . retrieved 13 july 2013 . external links edit official site northern light search retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title northern light group & oldid 585858130 categories internet search enginescompanies based in cambridge massachusettshidden categories subscription required using viapages containing links to subscription only content navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 december 2013 at 04 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view