|
Feature Chart
SEs by Feature
News Searches
Multi-Search
Directories
Opinions/Usenet
Phone Numbers
Others
Size
Freshness
Inconsistencies
And more
Google
Yahoo!
Search
Teoma
Gigablast
News Archive
Email Lists
Alerts
On the Net columns
Search Strategies
Books on Searching
Site Awards
About this Site |
 |
|
|
News Search Engines
Last updated Jul. 12, 2023.
by Greg R.
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.
Coverage of News Resources
Search Features of News Databases
| Search Engines |
Sort |
Case |
Stopwords |
Truncation |
Boolean |
Phrase |
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.
|
