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To: Toby Zidle who wrote (2057)	5/14/1999 1:59:00 PM
From: astyanax	Respond to of 2439

I know what you mean but unfortunately I can't think of any such available resource. The closest I know is www.newslibrary.com which allows you to search up to nearly 30 newspapers but charges an arm an a leg to actually retrieve any articles. RealCities.com is another site that throws together a bunch of sites but it does not have a metasearch engine. As for your last sentence, yeah, I think there would be an enormous demand for all newspapers of any size to be linked to a centralized database where people can query for info based on specific topic rather than current, traditional restraints (geography, etc). Lexis-Nexis, which my school offers only on-campus, has a lot of newspapers but I'd say around 1/3 of all papers are fully available on it. Infonautics has CompanySleuth and ELibrary.com but they are either limited in scope or cost a bit much... I think SI's search engine sucks. I mean, what's the deal here about limiting search results to a few posts? I've made a couple hundred posts here and I want to see every damn one but they truncate it to the most recent ones, that's pathetic. I guess they want to conserve resources by discouraging extensive queries. Metacrawler used to be my fav engine (I still like it), although I primarily stick to a Yahoo!/Dogpile combo, which I find to be killer. Yahoo! gives me all the top-down quick highlights I need but Dogpile lets me query a dozen search engines, newswires, newsgroups etc. Let me know if you find any cool information resources. Cheers, - Netconductor.com >>Toby Zidle wrote: O/T ... Thanks for the reply, Netconductor. I looked through the links you provided and bookmarked some. I do like the news.com page and had had that previously bookmarked. One ends up with so many bookmarks that the good ones can get buried. But I still have that desire for one search engine where I can enter a stock symbol and find all the 'local' paper coverage. You can find LCOS, DELL, and LU headlines anywhere. But where can you get the news of BMLS, BPLS, and ETPI? Usually only in the papers of their headquarters city. We still need that newspaper search engine! Is there some entrepreneur listening here? Maybe SI/Go2Net?