News Search Engine News

For a while there there was a real dearth of news search engines. Then starting late this year there was a veritable explosion of news search. Now you can't swing a shillelagh without hitting a news search engine.

Even Google's jumping on board. Though their search results have included news for a while, now they've made available a page of headlines at http://www.google.com/news/newsheadlines.html. Headlines are divided into several different sections. Google tells me there may be some enhancements in the future; I suspect they're waiting to see how popular this page becomes.

Unfortunately Excite News search ( http://news.excite.com) isn't what it used to be. The site offers several tab's worth of categorized news. News search is now handled by Dogpile's Newscrawler. We'll miss you, Excite NewsTracker!

Finally, NewsIsFree is offering a changes.xml file from which you may get details at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/message/1064. This is the file that Daypop is using to index news headlines. If anyone else starts using this file to build a news search engine, please let me know.

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