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News Index Review

This search engines has a useful News Index Delivered feature which sends email can be used for current awareness

  • Dates: Documentation states only current, but some seem to go back about a week
  • Sources: Nowhere listed, but appears to be many, maybe even hundreds.
  • Sort: Probably relevance, although it is difficult to tell with no date or time reported.
  • Frequency: Documentation states every 15 minutes, but the time of the last catalog reported with search results shows lag times of an hour or more. About every hour appears to be a rough average.
  • Case Recognition: None
  • Stop Words: Yes, including a, of, the.
  • Truncation: None available
  • Boolean: OR is the default, shown in the drop down menu as Any. The only other option available is the All from the drop down menu which will force an AND operation. No + - or nested Boolean is supported.
  • Phrase: No phrase or other proximity searching is available.