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Health, fitness,
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Interests: hobbies, lifestyles, social issues |
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Language tools |
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Locating people, organizations, places |
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Shopping: other |
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SEARCH OTHER THAN BY TOPIC |
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Country, language, audience, Internet application |
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File format |
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Search tool abilities |
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Meta
and all-in-one search tools
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| Information Source |
Description |
Web Address |
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Clusty |
Blog metasearch; sources Feedster, Daypop,
Technorati, BlogPulse, BlogDigger search tools |
http://blogs.clusty.com/search?v%3aproject=clusty-blogs&&form=advanced&v%3aframe=form& |
| Copernic |
Business News: articles published in business
publications and business news sites: 
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Guide: Business, investment, jobs |
| News -
Australia: articles in Australian newspapers and news sites |
| News -
Brazil: articles in Brazilian newspapers and news sites |
| News -
Canada: articles in Canadian newspapers and news sites |
| News -
Portugal: articles in Portuguese newspapers and news sites |
| News -
United Kingdom: articles in UK newspapers and news sites |
| News in
French: articles in French newspapers and news sites |
| News in
German: articles in German newspapers and news sites |
| News in
Italian: articles in Italian newspapers and news sites |
| News in
Spanish: articles in Spanish newspapers and news sites |
| Top
News: headlines or top news related to any field of interest on
specialized sites |
| Newspapers:
articles in newspapers |
| Newspapers - France: articles in
newspapers in France |
| Press Releases: on specialized sites:
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Tool Guide: Business, investment, jobs |
| Sports News: statistics, players, teams, etc., in
sports magazines, broadcasts, and specialized sites:
Search Tool Guide:
Entertainment, transportation, travel |
| Sports News - France: statistics, players, teams,
etc., in sports magazines, broadcasts, and specialized sites in
France:
Search Tool
Guide: Entertainment, transportation, travel |
| Tech News: computing, Internet, intranets,
e-commerce, etc., on specialized sites:
Search Tool Guide:
Computers/Internet |
| Tech News in French: computing, Internet, intranets,
e-commerce, etc., on specialized sites (French search engines
only):
Search Tool Guide:
Computers/Internet |
| Profusion |
Business
News: Weblogs; Entertainment News; Sports News; Finance News;
Health News; Legal News; Headline News; News Publications;
International News; National News; National News Archive;
Political News; Tech News |
Link no longer active, but you can still consider
the listed search tools. |
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Individual
directories & other search tools
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Major news |
SearchEngine
Watch.com |
Article: "Searching Television News" |
searchenginewatch.com
/searchday/article.php
/3582981 |
| Article: "ABC News Named Top News Site of 2005" |
searchenginewatch.com
/searchday/article.php
/3570391 |
| Furnishes a directory of news search tools |
www.searchengine
watch.com/links/
article.php/2156261 |
| ABC News |
Provides internal search tool of news site |
www.abcnews.go.com |
| Abyz News Links |
Links to international newspapers, news media, magazines, and so
on |
www.abyznewslinks.
com/index.html |
| BBC Archive |
Searches broadcasts (1977-) |
news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk
/hi/english/static
/advquery/advquery.htm |
| Big Search Engine Index |
Search tool guide, "news and media" branch |
www.search-engine-index.co.uk/News_
And_Media |
| CNN |
Provides a large and well-known news service |
www.cnn.com |
| FindArticles.com |
Searches LookSmart's articles database |
www.findarticles.com |
| Findory.com |
Provides news aggregated and personalized for you |
www.findory.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi |
| Google News |
Provides current week's news organized into "Top Stories,"
"World," "U.S." "Business," "Sci/Tech,"
etc. |
news.google.com |
| Google Zeitgeist |
Provides an index of the top recent Google searches |
www.google.com/press
/zeitgeist.html |
| Guardian Unlimited |
Provides internal search tool of news site |
www.guardian.co.uk |
| JounalismNet |
Provides an investigative guide to Internet search - international links |
www.journalismnet.com |
| Lycos 50 |
Provides an index of the top recent searches or news for celebrities and
people in the news |
50.lycos.com |
| News Directory |
Provides a list of English-language media by type (newspapers, magazines,
television stations), and then by topic or region |
www.newsd.com |
| New York Times |
Provides internal search tool of news site |
www.nytimes.com |
| Opinion-Pages |
Searches editorials |
www.opinion-pages.org |
| PBS Online NewsHour |
Searches daily broadcasts, with an international scope, but an
American focus |
www.pbs.org/newshour
/newshour_index.html |
| Podscope |
Searches podcasts using indexes built from voice recognition
technology |
www.podscope.com |
| PressDisplay |
Searches images of pages from more than 160 major newspapers around the
world |
www.pressdisplay.com/
pressdisplay/viewer.aspx |
| Radio Userland |
Searches top 100 most subscribed to feeds in the Radio Userland community |
radio.weblogs.com |
| Reuters |
Provides internal search tool of news site |
today.reuters.com/news |
| Rocket News |
Provides news search from a relatively limited number of sources,
involving some code that can be embedded into certain local computer
applications |
www.rocketnews.com |
| Today's Front Pages |
Provides front pages of newspapers from many countries; thumbnails of
each page presented alphabetically by country |
www.newseum.org/
todaysfrontpages |
| TVEyes |
Using voice
recognition technology to identify words and create indexes, allows
you to search each and every word spoken during TV news broadcasts |
tveyes.com |
| US News Briefings |
Provides an editor-compiled overview of American news briefings |
www.usnews.com
/usnews/briefings
/nbhome.htm |
| Washington Post |
Provides internal search tool of news site |
www.washingtonpost.com |
| World Press Review |
Includes views of U.S. from abroad |
www.worldpress.org |
| Yahoo! News |
Provides editor-organized news pages; updates continuously from newswires |
dailynews.yahoo.com |
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Blogs |
| For blogs, see:
Search Tool Guide:
Search Tool Abilities >
Tools that access blogs and real-time RSS feeds. |
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Meta
and all-in-one search tools
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| Information Source |
Description |
Web Address |
| Board Tracker |
"... an innovative forum search engine, message tracking and
instant alerts system designed to provide relevant information
quickly and efficiently while ensuring you never miss an important
forum thread no matter where or when it is posted" |
www.boardtracker.com |
| Copernic |
Forums & Communities:
forums, discussion groups, newsletters, and mailing lists with
postings on a specific subject |
| Newsgroups:
information in main newsgroups on the Web |
| Profusion |
Business
Discussions; Discussion Archives; Finance Discussions; Health
Discussions; Product Reviews; Tech Discussions |
Link no longer active, but you can still consider the listed search tools. |
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Individual
directories & other search tools
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| About.com |
Host site for many forums and topics |
search.about.com
/fullsearch.htm |
SearchEngine
Watch.com |
Directory of newsgroups/Usenet/forums search tools |
www.searchengine
watch.com/links/
article.php/2156271 |
| Finding treasure in boards and forums |
searchengine
watch.com/searchday/
article.php/3553976 |
| Big Search Engine Index |
Search tool guide, "discussion and chat" branch |
www.search-engine-index.co.uk/Discussion
_Group_Search |
| Search tool guide, "electronic text" branch |
www.search-engine-index.co.uk/Electronic
_Text_Search |
| Delphi Forums |
Host site for many forums and topics |
www.delphiforums.com |
| Google Groups 2 |
Searchable hierarchical index of mailing lists hosted by Google
(still in beta test stage) |
groups-beta.google.com |
| Google Usenet Search |
Usenet discussion forums |
groups.google.
com/grphp?hl=en |
| Lycos |
Discussion search:
targets most popular public community boards and forums on the Web,
including Yahoo Groups, MSN Groups, About.com, etc. |
discussion.lycos.com |
| MSN People & Chat |
Now a subscription service |
groups.msn.com/
people?pgmarket
=en-us |
| MSN Groups |
groups.msn.com |
| The Mail Archive |
Mailing lists hosted by The Mail Archive, searchable via a
mainstream search engine restricted by a parameter to this site |
www.mail-archive.com |
| Tile.net |
Mailing lists hosted by Tile.net, searchable via a mainstream
search engine restricted by a parameter to this site |
tile.net/lists |
| Topica |
Searchable hierarchical index of mailing lists hosted by Topica |
www.topica.com |
| Yahoo Groups |
Searchable hierarchical index of mailing lists hosted by Yahoo |
groups.yahoo.com |
| For stock market
discussion boards, also see:
Search Tool Guide:
Business, investment, jobs |
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