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Friday, 23rd May 2003

The Possible Return of Northern Light? Only Time Will Tell

Web Search--Northern Light
The Return of Northern Light? Only Time Will Tell
The Northern Light name and search technology was purchased at a divine bankruptcy auction earlier this week by NL's former CEO David Seuss. What this really means for a relaunch of NL in the enterprise search and the web search space is not clear, especially as to precisely when it will happen. According to the news release, "Immediately, after the acquisition, Seuss contacted the corporate customers for Northern Light�s SinglePoint Market Research Portal that had not fled during the Divine era and assured them that their customer support would soon return to the exceptionally high levels characteristic of Northern Light during its days as an independent company." The news release goes on to note that Seuss wants to put NL's "never before released Northern Light Enterprise Search Engine" on the market. As far as the return of the once publicly available Northern Light web engine, makes no promises about its return. Seuss says, "We have started discussions with interested parties about ideas for new approaches to the Web search problem, ideas that represent a collaboration between others who have done innovative work and Northern Light. These ideas may result in uniquely useful Web search services." Bottom line? Another case of "only time will tell". Good luck to David. Thanks to S.C. for the news tip.
(Updated 6/2) See Also: Paula Hane Sheds More Light on the New Northern Light (via Info Today NewsBreaks)

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