Northern Light
Whether you need an answer to a highly specific query or to a general keyword search, Northern Light may be your best option. Using a unique custom-folders feature and natural-language engine, the site aced our tests, answering queries with numerous relevant results when some sites had trouble supplying one.
You can use wildcard and Boolean operators to define your search. Power Search tools help define where to look, allowing you to limit searches to URLs or company names, for example. Although not perfect, the engine did well on natural-language queries, too. When we asked, "What does WAP stand for?" (a question few search engines could answer), Northern Light supplied ten pages with the answer.
If you can't find relevant results at the top of the general list of hits, don't worry. Northern Light also sorts the general list into subcategories, or custom folders. In a search for Carnivore, the FBI surveillance tool, the first page of the general list had few relevant results. But an FBI custom folder had also been created, offering only appropriate results.
Worth noting, too, is the company's generally for-pay special collection, which represents nearly 7,000 sources not commonly found on the Web.
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