Northern Light Going, Going, Gone

This week, Northern Light and NLResearch have been dying bit by bit. Now, all most all of the Northern Light and NLResearch URLs point to divine pages. The few that do still go to old Northern Light pages no longer have a search form that works. Northern Light News had one last gasp of content on Monday and then stopped updating again. So it looks like a final farewell to an old friend, and a search engine that had features as yet unduplicated by the survivors. Their custom folders, the taxonomy behind them, the truncation capabilities, and the combination with their fee-based Special Collection made Northern Light an important and useful tool. Unfortunately, it never achieved the popularity or profitability of others.