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January 18, 2005

Rocketinfo Adds Content to Database

News search engine Rocketinfo (if that doesn't sound familiar maybe "Rocketnews" will ring a chime) has added a bunch of television broadcast content to their database. The content comes from...

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November 17, 2004

RocketNews Adds Personalization Features

News search engine RocketNews ( http://www.rocketnews.com ) has added some personalization features to their search. It doesn't appear that these require registration to work; it appears everything is cookiefied. The...

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September 13, 2004

Findory Offers Personalized-News-Alerts-Inna-Box

Findory ( http://www.findory.com ) has been mentioned in ResearchBuzz before; it's a Web site that provides personalized news based on the headlines you view. Now it offers personalized news based...

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September 07, 2004

Track News Buzz By Name

If you like sites like Yahoo Buzz which tell you about the most popular people and topics in searches, you'll like NewsbyName. It scans news for names and ranks name...

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September 01, 2004

FindArticles Adds a Premium Component

I went over to FindArticles ( http://www.findarticles.com ) yesterday to look for an article, and I noticed that they have something that seems to be new -- or at least...

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August 04, 2004

Topix Redesigns, Offers Some New Stuff

Topix has redesigned and offers some new sources, including more news sources (up to over 7,000 now) and other goodies. The home page hasn't changed, though -- it's still at...

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July 28, 2004

MSNBC Launches MSNBC Newsbot

MSNBC announced on July 27 the MSNBC Newsbot, which is an extension of Microsoft's news search. The MSBNC 'bot is available for a "limited time" and searches over 4,800 news...

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July 26, 2004

New News Search Engine

Thanks to SearchEngineJournal.com for the pointer to new news search engine FeedsFarm. I'm always looking for news search engines that'll provide keyword-based RSS feeds. it's available at http://www.FeedsFarm.com. Compared to...

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June 22, 2004

A News Search Engine That Breaks Out By Source Type

I'm not sure how new it is, and I get the sense that the source list is a bit limited, but NewsLookup is interesting in that you can break out...

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April 16, 2004

MSN's Newsbot Gets Some New Features

MSN's Newsbot, which is in Beta in the UK, has some new features. You can check out the news search at http://uk.newsbot.msn.com/ . First thing you'll notice is that the...

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April 15, 2004

RocketNews Relaunched Their News Search Engine

What is it with news search engines? Do they go in cycles? Early in the Internet we had some lovely news search engines, then a lot of them died off,...

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April 13, 2004

SurfWax Has a News Search Too

After all this talking about news search, the folks at SurfWax dropped me a note to let me know that they have a news search too. Theirs includes an interesting...

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March 31, 2004

Topix Up to 6,000 News Sources

Holy-Cow-When-You-Said-Local-You-Weren't-Kiddin' news site Topix (http://www.topix.net) is now up to 6,000 news sources, up from 3,600. Almost a quarter of the sources they're crawling are daily newspapers, and only 1% of...

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March 09, 2004

Findory News Site Adapts to Your Interests

There are plenty of news sites that will find what you're looking for, but Findory promises to find what you're interested in. It's available at http://www.findory.com . The site advertises...

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March 04, 2004

Nice One-Pager -- News Search Portal

If you like news sources and you don't mind yellow text on blue background, you'll like this one-pager of news resources at http://www.newssearchportal.com/ . This site doesn't list individual news...

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January 14, 2004

New News Aggregating Site On the Horizon -- Topix

I rarely get site announcements describing the site as a "News Site of Doom," but what the hey. After viewing it, I'll give it props as a news site of...

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October 01, 2002

What Is NewsSeer?

I hadn't seen this site before. There wasn't much information available about it on the site, but it looks interesting for news junkies. It's called NewsSeer, and it's available at...

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December 20, 2001

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...

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October 24, 2001

New Search Engine for News Searching

With the news that Excite's NewsTracker was folding up, a couple of news junkies gloomily e-mailed me asking if there were any other news search options out there. There's DayPop,...

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September 17, 2001

DayPop Adds New Features

News and Weblog search engine DayPop http://www.daypop.com/ has added some new features to its new search engine. In addition to specifying a search for news, Weblogs, or both, users may...

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December 06, 2000

Infotrieve Offers Pre-Release of Article Finder

The official release is the first quarter of next year, but if you're a periodical research junkie you might want to check out the pre-release version of Infotrieve's new article...

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March 28, 2000

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...

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February 26, 2000

Search News with NewsBlip

And another entry in our "search for current events news" category is NewsBlip, at http://www.newsblip.com/. NewsBlip is for REALLY current news -- it doesn't hold stories for more than four...

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February 12, 2000

Infonautics and Newsdirectory

Infonautics (producer of Company Sleuth, Entertainment Sleuth, etc.) has purchased media directory site http://www.newsdirectory.com . From the press release: "...'Over time, we plan on combining our Infonautics Sleuth services with...

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