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This page is a tool for researchers, traders, analysts, or information junkies who can't rely on single sources to give them the live updated news and information they need. Interesting fact: Some Intelligence agencies collect information from printed newspapers
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News Search Sites
| Aggregated headlines and a search engine of many of the world's news sources. news.google.com/ - 101k - Oct 28, 2005 - Google Home - Search: More, more, more Image Search - Privacy Policy |
News Index - The Original News Search Engine
| The Internet's first, most comprehensive, up to the minute News Only Search Engine. www.newsindex.com/ - 6k - |
Daypop - a current events/weblog/news search engine
| Search thousands of news sites and weblogs from around the world. Updates every hour. www.daypop.com/ - 4k - |
The top news headlines on current events from Yahoo! News
| Keyword search across thousands of news sources and major wire services. news.yahoo.com/ - 90k - Oct 28, 2005 - |
Last updated Oct. 31, 2003.
by Greg R.
Notess.
The Web is a rich source for current local, national, and international news. There are hundreds of individual news sites on the Web, from broadcast sources such as CNN or ABC to newspapers including the Washington Post and the New York Times. There are several search engines which cover multiple news sites and news wires. This section compares those news search engines. See the chart for news coverage or search features. [NOTE: TotalNews, NewsIndex, and Yahoo sections not yet updated.]
See the Search Engine Showdown News Search Engines category for changes and other news.
| Search Engines | Date Coverage | Sources | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| AltaVista News Review |
1 year + | 3,000+ including New York Times, More | Hour |
| Google News | 30 days | 4,000+ sources, English only | 5 min. |
| AlltheWeb News | 7 days | 3,000+ sources, multilingual | 5 min. |
| Daypop | 7 days | 7,500+ Weblogs, News sites, and RSS feeds | 3x day |
| TotalNEWS: Review |
Year | 100s of news Web sites | Hours |
| News Index Review |
Week | Many news Web sites | Hour |
| Yahoo! News Review |
Months | News feeds from 100+ sources and Web sites from Moreover | Minutes |
| Search Engines | Sort | Case | Stopwords | Truncation | Boolean | Phrase |
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| AltaVista News Review |
Relevance, date | No | No | Yes * | AND, OR, AND NOT, ( ), +, - | "Yes" |
| Google News | Relevance, date | No | Yes, + to search | No | - for not | "Yes" |
| AlltheWeb News | Relevance, date | No | No | No | - for not | "Yes" |
| Daypop | Relevance, date | No | Yes, + to search | No | - for not | "Yes" |
| TotalNEWS: Review |
Relevance? | No | Yes | Automatic | AND only | "Yes" |
| News Index Review |
Relevance? | No | Yes | None | AND, OR | No |
| Yahoo! News Review |
Relevance? | No | Yes | Automatic | + - | "Yes" |
For more information on news searching, see my (now somewhat dated) article "Searching for Current News" Database 22(3): 57-60, June-July 1999.
See also U.S. News Archives on the Web which includes information on archive coverage and cost for access. This is a very useful resource for finding articles from a specific newspaper.