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News Sites & Search Engines
In addition to the sites above that help you locate news sources, there are also a
growing number of excellent search services dedicated to delivering and searching
the news. In fact, so many people all over the world are relying on the Internet for
their news that "old media" sources continue to lose revenue as they compete for
readers and viewers . It turns out that some of the "new media" Internet news
services such as Google and Yahoo now compensate old media sources such as
AP on a pay-per-c1ick basis. "Major Internet portals such as Yahoo and America
Online have been paying for content since their creation in the mid-1990s ... Earlier
this year [2006], Google signed a deal with the Associated Press, one of more than
50 agreements AP Chief Executive Tom Curley has obtained from Internet players"
since 2003. 136
Google News and Yahoo News are among the very best news search tools. Both
have superb advanced search options that include the ability to limit searches to
specific publications, dates, etc. Both let you sort the results by relevance or by date
and time. News searching is one area in which it makes sense to sort results
by date because news stories, unlike webpages, have meaningful date/time
"stamps" or tags.
Because of partnerships between many news websites and news providers , readers
often have access to subscription news stories without having to register (e.g., The
New York Times) or give personal information at a news website. Occasionally, you
may even discover you can access an article requiring payment because of a
partnership arrangement. For example , this article is only available by paid
subscription at its website, but by using Google News to find it, a reader can access
the full article for free and without registering .
The Patent Office: Getting Wiki With It
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In Augus t. when the Patent and Trade mark Office acknowledged that it had taken Wikipedi., off its list of
acceptable research sources, the surprise was not •••
136Elise Ackerman. "New media making deals with 'old' news providers," Mercury News. 30 July
2006, (14 November 2006).
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