On 27 Oct 99, 22:25, Gad Alexander wrote:
> I would like to search for certain seldom words in the full-text of
> (English and German) newspapers.
>
> If I cannot find in internet the full text of the newspapers, are they
> companies that offer for money the possibility to search in their
> full-text archives?
You have a daunting task ahead of you, as you shall see...
I should think first we have to find our newspapers, online:
http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/By_Region/
The Newspapers/By_Region page links to Countries, Regions and U.S.
States. You follow your links to each individual newspaper that has an
online presence. Today there are numerous newspapers, online. Even
small towns have their newspaper uploaded with a web presence. I
should think today that the newspapers of every major city in the
world, would have an online presence.
When you have a newspaper site in your browser, look for a search
function, whereby the archives of that newspaper may be searched. Now
as to your ability to find elusive words, that would depend largely on
the type of search engine employed at the site.
Other than a search function, you might look for FAQs, guides, help
documents that might indicate the publication has other electronic
services.
Example:
Let us bring up a random small city newspaper:
http://www.thefacts.com/
Okay, on the left side towards the bottom, there is a search box.
Suppose we enter some obscure word, like ah..."beach"
That brings up several articles from the Facts archives. You can then
open each of them and use your browser to search for the word beach in
those articles.
Therefore, Gad, the example above will be more to the case to which you
are able to search a newspaper site's archives. I think you will find
it rare to be able to have one text of one issue of one newspaper to
search. Your ability to search archives will be to the extent of all
data stored on the newspapers' web servers.
Despite the fact that most newspapers have online search function, you
would have to go to each individual newspaper sites to search their
archives.
There are services on the web that act as Meta news search engines,
where they search several sources at once for you. I'll list a few of
these references, but frankly I do not think this is what you seek.
(1) NewsTrawler - Parallel Search engine for news sites on the Internet
http://www.newstrawler.com/nt/nt_home.html
(2) NewsHub - News summaries and meta search
http://www.newshub.com/
(3) NewsIndex - search 250 newspapers at once
http://www.newsindex.com/
(4) Many of the major web search sites, such as Lycos, Excite, Hotbot,
Yahoo and others have news searching capability where you can search
several news sources at once:
http://news.excite.com/news
http://headlines.hotbot.com/news/
http://www.lycos.com/news/
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/
Alan
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