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Re: [GWL]: daily search engines for gardening articles

I haven't been monitoring the listserv for a while, so my apologies for not responding to your
request before now.

A daily service that would search for newspaper and magazine articles on a daily basis is
something that has been developed for the corporate environment to meet the needs of businesses
for current articles on topical issues published in trade and professional journals as well as in
newspapers. To make it work and work well, the search engines must be extremely sophisticated
which translates into $$$. The fees for these highly specialized search engines cover both the
costs of the user interface as well as for the content and can reach into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars.

Having said that, the closest you and I as individuals can come to achieving a daily newspaper
and magazine monitoring system for free resides with a search engine called Northern Light.
(www.northernlight.com) NL allows you to set up personal "alerts"(go to "My Alerts" on the
left-hand navigation bar.) Click on "create an alert" and then "power search" to name your alert,
type in the keywords, and choose the types of websites you would like to monitor. (There are
categories for newspapers and magazines, but I don't think you can choose specific titles.
Alternatively, you can set up an alert for each publication you wish to monitor, as long as it's
in the NL listing.)

In the past, after setting up your search strategy, the system prompted you to set your delivery
options to indicate how frequently you wanted to receive updates delivered to your email inbox.
Now, it seems they've scaled back on this function so that you must visit the website to review
any new hits.

Note that while all citations, and many of the publications/websites in the NL database are free,
some are priced on a fee for view basis. So, to read more than the title, publication, date and
description of the article, you would have to pay a nominal fee. (usually around $2) If all you
want is the citation, you won't have to pay a cent. This is a useful tool with some limitations,
but for the money, it ain't bad!

Hope this helps!
Lorraine Flanigan


>   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.
>

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