Google News
http://news.google.com/
Provides the ability to
keyword search across thousands of news
sources found through crawling the web,
while also providing the ability to
browse categories of news where headlines
are assembled automatically. Winner
for Best News Search Engine from Search
Engine Watch in 2002. (Review:
Google News Search Leaps Ahead, Oct.
2, 2002)
Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com/
Similar to Google News,
you can keyword search across thousands
of news sources found by Yahoo's news
crawling partner, Moreover,
as well as stories fed by major wire
services and news partners. Yahoo
Full Coverage lets you browse
categories of news, where articles and
resources have been hand-assembled by
Yahoo editors. Second-place
winner for Best News Search Engine
from Search Engine Watch in 2002.
(Review: A
Closer Look At Yahoo News, July 30,
2003)
AllTheWeb News
http://www.alltheweb.com/?cat=news
This Overture-owned
service lets you keyword search against
content gathered from news sites across
the web. Advanced news search page
allows narrowing news sources to
particular categories, such as sports or
technology. Honorable
mention winner for Best News Search
Engine from Search Engine Watch in 2002.
AltaVista News
http://news.altavista.com/
This Overture-owned
service lets you keyword search against
news content found by sister-search
engine AllTheWeb (above) and content
supplied by major news partners such as
the New York Times. Drop-down options
under the search box make it easy to
narrow results by news topic, world
region or to some major news sources.
Basic news headline browsing by category
is also offered. Honorable
mention winner for Best News Search
Engine from Search Engine Watch in 2002.
Daypop
http://www.daypop.com/
Daypop lets you keyword
search through content it finds from
crawling thousands of news sites
throughout each day. You can also search
through weblog content or information
from RSS feeds. Honorable
mention winner for Best News Search
Engine from Search Engine Watch in 2002.
(Review: Behind
the Scenes at the Daypop Search Engine,
Sept. 10, 2003)
Ananova
http://www.ananova.com/
News search engine that
provides coverage from about hundreds of
different sources. It also features a
"virtual newscaster" called
Ananova.
Columbia Newsblaster
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/
Experimental system
that automatically assembles a page
showing the day's news, based on
information it finds from crawling the
web. (Review: Newsblaster:
An Automatic Weblogger, March 6,
2002)
Net2one
http://www.net2one.com/
Provides ability to
keyword search through news content from
across the web or have information sent
to you on a regular basis -- but only for
those who pay for the service. The free
guest account functionality is so limited
that it's not worth the time signing up
for it. If you aren't going to be a
paying member, another news search engine
will serve you better.
Newsknife.com
http://www.newsknife.com
Not a news search
engine but instead a news rating service.
Newsknife measures how well various news
sites, including automated ones like
Google News, appear to be performing.
NewsNow
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/
Search headlines
gathered from news sources around the
world. Each listing also has a country
flag icon to indicate the national origin
of the report. You can browse newsfeeds
that organize headlines into categories
such as animal welfare and celebrity
gossip.
NewsTrawler
http://www.newstrawler.com/
News meta search site
that allows you to send a query to one or
more news sites from one location.
Hundreds of sites are listed, by country
and by category.
NewsTrove.com
http://www.newstrove.com/
Keyword search or
browse categories for news content from
across the web.
Rocketinfo
http://www.rocketnews.com
Keyword search against
news and weblog content gathered from
across the web. Desktop software sold by
Rocketinfo provides additional features,
such as the ability search against more
resources and to save searches. Formerly
known as RocketNews. Past honorable
mention winner for Best News Search
Engine from Search Engine Watch. (Review:
A
Multifaceted Online News and Blog Search
Tool, Jan. 27, 2004)
World News Network
http://www.wn.com/
Draws from hundreds of
online news sources in 20 languages.
Presents stories grouped into more than
500 subject and geographical categories.
(Review: A
Different Look at World News, Jan. 6,
2003)
DailyEarth.com
http://dailyearth.com/
A guide to newspaper
web sites and news search resources
around the world. Formerly known as
NewspaperDirectory.com.
HeadlineSpot
http://www.headlinespot.com/
Links to hundreds of
sources of news and information,
organized in categories. Major categories
include news by subject, news by region,
media type, opinion pages, and so on.
Other categories point to resources
helpful to news junkies. These include
links to cool tools, resources for
journalists, kids and teachers, and a
category that takes you behind the news.
Kiosken
http://www.esperanto.se/kiosk/engindex.html
A guide to newspaper
web sites around the world.
NewsDirectory
http://www.newsdirectory.com/
Easy access to
thousands of news sources, including
newspapers, magazines and television
stations worldwide.
Blogdex
http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/
Long-standing services
that leverages blog links for discovery
purposes. Think of it as a "buzz
index" according to blogs, where the
goal is to show you which links anywhere
on the web are currently getting the most
references from bloggers. (Review: RSS:
Your Gateway To News & Blog Content,
April 2, 2003)
Blogdigger
http://www.blogdigger.com/
While it's called
Blogdigger, this service also includes
some non-blog content, as it is based on
searching through RSS feeds. Feeds are
either submitted or found via the Weblogs.com
site.
Blogging Headline
News
http://blogging-news.info
This news site samples
12,000 RSS feeds, selecting about 5,000
posts three-times a day to feature in
about 130 different categories. It's
designed to be an online blogging
magazine. You can also keyword search for
material.
BlogStreet
http://www.blogstreet.com/
A wonderful blog
discovery and investigation tool that
allows you to view information about a
blog, such as other blogs that seem to be
related to it, people linking to its
entries, how it ranks in the blogging
world, and much more. There's also a
range of RSS tools, such as the ability
to create an RSS feed for any blog (or
ordinary web site) that lacks one. The
site also contains a directory of
existing RSS feeds that have been
submitted to it or discovered. In
addition, BlogStreet operates Info
Aggregator, an outstanding
software-free service lets you subscribe
to RSS feeds and have posts delivered via
email. You can also keyword search
through blog and RSS posts.
CRAYON (CReAte Your
Own Newspaper)
http://www.crayon.net/
This service doesn't
use RSS feeds, but the concept of
tailoring news to what you want is the
same. To create your own newspaper,
simply sign up for a free account and
select the sources you want to include.
There are hundreds of online newspapers
to choose from. You can also include
specialized sources, with topics
including politics, business, weather,
religion, sports and so on.
Fagan Finder:
Weblogs, Journals, & RSS
http://www.faganfinder.com/blogs/
Superb all-in-one
search page that lets you easily search a
variety of blog/RSS search engines, plus
provides related links on the subject.
Feedster
http://www.feedster.com/
Feedster lets you
search against content distributed via
RSS. That means it's essentially a blog
search engine for many people, since so
many blog entries are distributed via
RSS. However, some non-blog newsfeeds are
also included. Feedster's Images
feature is designed to present a visual
look at that day's blogging world.
Feedster was originally known as Roogle
when launched in March 2003 and absorbed
the formerly separate RSS Search service
in June 2003. (Review: Feedster,
July 1, 2003)
NewsIsFree
http://www.newsisfree.com
A long-standing major
directory of RSS feeds. It organizes
thousands of news feeds -- what it calls
"news channels" -- into
categories. You can browse the categories
to find feeds of interest or do a search
for feeds that mention your keywords in
their titles and descriptions.
Syndic8.com
http://www.syndic8.com/
Another major directory
of RSS feeds. It lets you look through
thousands of RSS feeds that users have
submitted or which have been added by
volunteers to its collection. In other
words, it's an Open
Directory for RSS feeds.
Technorati
http://www.technorati.com/
Technorati is a great
service. Plug in the URL of any web page,
and you can quickly see what bloggers are
saying about it by using the "Link
Cosmos" feature. The Breaking
News feature assembles top headlines
automatically -- but these headlines come
from blogs, rather than traditional news
sources. A similar Current
Events feature is also offered.
Technorati's Top
100 also offers an "A-List"
of popular blogs based on linkage
patterns.
HighBeam
Access to reference material,
research information, periodical
literature and more. Searching is free.
You pay to view material you find.
Previously called eLibrary and
Researchville.
FindArticles.com
http://www.findarticles.com/
Let's you search
through articles from over 300 sources,
dating back to 1998, and view them for
free. You can narrow your search to
specific magazine categories, such as
"Automotive," using a drop down
option next to the search box. You can
also search within a particular
publication by using the "View
Publications by Name" link, which
appears below the search box. Find the
name of the magazine you are interested
in, click on its name, and the search box
that appears searches against only that
publication's content. (Review: A
Free Deep Content Search Engine, Mar.
21, 2002). You can also access the same
information from LookSmart,
the owner of FindArticles, by clicking on
the "Articles" tab at
LookSmart.
MagPortal
http://www.magportal.com/
Allows you to find
magazine articles, plus you can order
results by date or publisher. Articles
can also be found by browsing a directory
structure.
Corante
http://www.corante.com
If you are after
technology news, this service aims to
deliver top articles each day in
different areas. Stories are reviewed and
classified by human editors.
iMenta
http://www.imente.com
Headlines from Spanish
news sources. Requires payment to use.
Paperball
http://paperball.fireball.de/
Produced by the German
Fireball search service, Paperball lets
you search for German news.
Google Alert
Automatically Tracks Your Favorite Topics
SearchDay, Jan. 22, 2004
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3301451
Google Alert lets you
automate the process of running regular
queries, sending you an email whenever
any new content is added to the Google
database.
Today's Newspapers
Around the World
SearchDay, Jan. 20, 2004
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3300851
Want to see what
today's print version of your favorite
newspaper looks like online? Two services
offer reproductions of dozens of
newspapers from around the world.
Rocketnews
Will Soon Offer New Search Features
ResourceShelf.com, Nov. 21, 2003
http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/2003_11_01_resourceshelf_archive.html#106936775292562581
New options are coming
to the Rocketnews news search service,
such as headline title searching and the
ability to go back in articles for six
months.
Dont
panic yet, human news editors. Google
News settles in.
Newsknife, November 2003
http://www.newsknife.com/features/google_news_trend.html
After monitoring Google
News for nearly a year, Newsknife
determines it's very good, but human
compiled news sites still have an edge.
Google News Finally
Makes the Grade
Online Journalism Review, Aug. 28, 2003
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1062114819.php
Google News is now to
be rated among news generation sites such
as the LA Times and the Guardian -- and
will rank pretty well among the others,
too. A look at the addition and how news
sites get ranked in general.
Battle of the blog
News.com, Aug. 4, 2003
http://news.com.com/2009-1032_3-5059006.html
Covers the rivalry over
RSS formats that exist. Danny Sullivan
offers longer comments on this article
and the debate in the August 2003 edition
of the Search Engine Report.
Q&A with Krishna
Bharat of Google News
Google.com, July 2003
http://www.google.com/googlefriends/morejul03.html#qa
This is from Google's
"Google Friends" newsletter and
a short, good read for more insight into
how Google News operates.
Google Toolbar
'BlogThis' Rankles Rivals
InternetNews.com, June 27, 2003
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2228651
The latest version of
the Google Toolbar makes it easy to blog
a page you are visiting. The
functionality only works with Google's
Blogger.com service, and free accounts
are suggested, if you don't have an
account. Those from competing blogging
tools aren't pleased that the toolbar
doesn't interact with their services.
Monitoring Web Pages
24 Hours a Day
SearchDay, April 9, 2003
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2178631
If you regularly visit
web pages looking for new or updated
information, you'll save countless hours
by automating the process with software
that tracks changes for you -- even while
you sleep.
RSS: Your Gateway To
News & Blog Content
The Search Engine Update, April 2,
2003
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175281
RSS allows blogs, news
sites and other sources an easy way to
distribute their content. The article
below explains how RSS can be a great way
for anyone to receive customized news
information from growing number of
sources, plus it examines ways to search
and explore RSS and blog-oriented
content.
Loving Each Other
More: Search Engines & Blogs
The Search Engine Report, April
2, 2003
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175261
Explores the timely
content that blogs provide, work they can
do to make themselves more search engine
friendly and some thoughts on what search
engines might do on their end.
Making An RSS Feed
The Search Engine Report, April 2,
2003
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175271
RSS is a method of
distributing links to content in your web
site that you'd like others to use. In
other words, it's a mechanism to
"syndicate" your content. It
can be an easy way to draw attention to
your material, bringing you some traffic
and perhaps a little net fame, depending
on how good your information is.
Paid Content Trend
Is Dangerous
Editor & Publisher, Jan. 27, 2003
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1804448
If news sites begin
pulling content behind barriers, it may
reduce the usefulness of news search
engines. A look at the potential
problems, especially from a news
publisher's point of view.
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