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Yahoo! News Review

Yahoo! News also has an alert service for their news database which can deliver email alerts for specific keywords up to twice daily.

  • Dates: Some from the past month, but most from the past week.
  • Sources: Reuters, AP, States News Service, MSNBC, Web newspapers sites, and more
  • Sort: Not date, possibly relevance
  • Frequency: Every 15 minutes
  • Case Recognition: No
  • Stop Words: Yes, including a, of, the
  • Frequency: According to their documentation, hourly for Reuters and several times a day for MSNBC
  • Case Recognition: None
  • Stop Words: Yes, including a, of, the
  • Truncation: None available, and it does not do the full automatic truncation available on the rest of Yahoo!. It may do simple automatic plurals that only add a final 's'.
  • Boolean: Yahoo! supports use of the + - syntax but not full Boolean searching. The default for multiple term searching is an implied AND.
  • Phrase: Phrase searching can be designated by double quotes "" around a search phrase.