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[GWL]: daily search engines for gardening articles

At 11:05 AM 1/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Doug Green:
>I posted a message on Jan. 9 and Lon Rombough said that you may be able
>to help me with the answer.  I have been looking for something that can
>act like a search engine and search and identify any new gardening
>article published in a magazine or newspaper on a daily basis.

There was such a service a few short Internet years ago - now dead and 
buried. You could set your search parameters for any topic.  The only thing 
I know of now would be the wire services and they don't tell you what is 
written - just what the service is sending out.  Daily is far too short for 
any search engine to index material from a variety of sources. They are 
just not that fast.

I think Nexus Lexus does something like this but not on a daily email basis 
- you'd have to check with them for cost (high) for an individual 
subscriber.  Check you local library.  Sometimes the library has resource 
databases that they can let you use.

You "could" set up your own by using a meta search engine such as x-portal 
and configuring the search parameters to include the sites of newspapers 
you wanted to search. It would be time consuming but you could 
theoretically do so given the limits of the software to only include so 
many search sites.

You might also try a few relevant search terms on google, i.e. "daily news 
service" etc. etc. on a variety of terms to see if there is something that 
will come close to what you want.  You'll have to do a lot of sorting 
because when I went over there to try it, I got a LOT of responses to two 
different searches. ;-)

Having said that - I don't know of such a search engine service which is 
why I didn't respond to the original request.

Doug
In Eastern Ontario, Canada where it is raining instead of snowing.  The 
bright side of this is that you don't have to shovel rain.  Are you 
listening Jeff of the Northwoods? :-)





Douglas Green,
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