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May 07, 2006Checking In With RocketNews
Remember RocketNews? It's a news search engine available at http://www.rocketnews.com. While it's an interesting engine I don't search it that much, mostly because its news searches are limited to only four days (as opposed to 30 days for news search...
June 09, 2005More Search Result Comparison Goodness
People seem to like those sites where you can compare the results from two different search engines, so here's another one that you can use to compare results from Yahoo News and Google News. It's at http://www.newsiness.com/googleyahoonews/ . The site...
January 18, 2005Rocketinfo 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 local affiliates for ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. You can...
November 17, 2004RocketNews 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 features appear when you're looking at the My RocketNews Portal...
Continue reading "RocketNews Adds Personalization Features" » September 13, 2004Findory 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 on what you pick -- online you can put the...
Continue reading "Findory Offers Personalized-News-Alerts-Inna-Box" » September 07, 2004Track 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 popularity as well as being a dandy name news search....
September 01, 2004FindArticles 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 it's new to me: premium content. FindArticles, you may remember,...
August 04, 2004Topix 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 http://www.topix.net . I was crabbing yesterday about very basic news...
July 28, 2004MSNBC 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 sources. It's available at http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com/ . I think it's interesting...
July 26, 2004New 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 other news search engines, it's a little small -- it...
June 22, 2004A 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 your results by source type (Magazine, Radio, Newspapers, Internet) and...
Continue reading "A News Search Engine That Breaks Out By Source Type" » April 16, 2004MSN'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 layout is rather different from the Google News layout. It...
April 15, 2004RocketNews 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, then in mid-2001 we had another great resurgence, and then...
Continue reading "RocketNews Relaunched Their News Search Engine" » April 13, 2004SurfWax 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 feature called LookAhead. SurfWax' news search is available at http://news.surfwax.com...
March 31, 2004Topix 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 what they're crawling are Weblogs. Topix allows you to get...
March 09, 2004Findory 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 "Click on articles that interest you. Then come back to...
Continue reading "Findory News Site Adapts to Your Interests" » March 04, 2004Nice 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 searches; instead it lists search sources. Here you'll find major...
January 14, 2004New 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 doom, though a Beta news site of doom. (doomlet?) Anyway,...
Continue reading "New News Aggregating Site On the Horizon -- Topix" » October 01, 2002What 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 http://newsseer.com/ . It's not fancy. Basically it's a list of...
December 20, 2001News 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...
October 24, 2001New 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, of course, and Moreover, and MagPortal, and several others. And...
September 17, 2001DayPop 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 specify the age of the materials being searched. Specified search...
December 06, 2000Infotrieve 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 finder -- you can get to it at http://www4.infotr ieve.com/search/ArticleFinder.asp...
Continue reading "Infotrieve Offers Pre-Release of Article Finder" » March 28, 2000New 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...
Continue reading "New Magazine Article Directory/Search Engine Launched" » February 26, 2000Search 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 or five days -- which makes it great for searching...
February 12, 2000Infonautics 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 an integrated set of search and reference sites that tailor...
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