New Magazine Article Directory/Search Engine Launched

Lookin' for a magazine article? Get thee to the MagPortal at http://www.magportal.com/ . The site starts as a directory of magazine subjects. Pick a subject -- say, Internet -- and you get a sub-index AND a list of recent articles in that category. The list contains the name of the magazine, article title, date (of publication? of addition to the site?) and name of the writer. There's also a sentence or so of extract from the article. At the end of the article are two little icons. One icon looks like a small pen, and allows you to "mark" the article and store it in your "articles list" if you register with the site. (The site asks you only for user name and password; they ask for no personal information.) The second icon looks like a wave and finds articles similar to the one you're looking at.

MagPortal.com also has a search engine for finding articles. While it provides the results in lists of ten, it unfortunately does not give you the total number of search results. For an overview of what's available, take a look at the site map -- http://www.magportal.com/sitemap.html -- and you'll see a list of categories and two numbers separated by a forward slash ( like this: (0/0).) The first number is the number of current articles, and the second number is the number of older articles.

Worth a look. If I come back to this site in a month and they've kept up with adding articles it'll be worth TEN looks.

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