How can I find it?

We learn about the major news search tools, as well as how to integrate them with your knowledge of RSS.

Class held on 10/05/2009. (student notes; possible questions).

Class structure

1. Go through “At beginning of class” information
2. I'll lecture for a bit using some slides (as a PDF)
3. Work on today's news search exercises.

At beginning of class

On your own

1. Read the current to-do list on the course home page.
   • I will keep this up-to-date for each class. I hope this will make it easier for you to figure out just what it is that you're supposed to be doing (and when) during the semester.
2. No grades (too much other prep going on)

Resources

News search

• General news search
  • Google News
    • How to search Google News Search more efficiently
    • Google News source filtering
    • Google News tests new design
  • Yahoo News
  • AltaVista News
  • LexisNexis News
  • Jamesoo
    • Innovative news search with Jamesoo
• Historical
  • Google News Archive Search
  • Newspaper Archive (requires paid subscription)
• International
  • World News
  • World Press
• Local newspapers
  • NewsVoyager

Print newspapers

• Can Newspapers Be Saved? Part 1, Part 2
• Bringing history online one newspaper at a time
  • Google launches newspaper digitization project
  • Google to digitize newspaper archives
  • Google makes old newspapers searchable and readable too