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

This is a notice to all. The search engine northernlights is dead or dying
and shutting down very soon.

Bruce Zimmerman  

www.brucezimmerman.com

At 10:03 AM 1/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>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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