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Friday, 21st November 2003

RocketNews.Com Will Soon Offer New Features

News Searching--Rocketnews
Great News! Rocketnews Will Soon Offer New Search Features
I not only mention Rocketnews regularly on ResourceShelf and in training sessions but I also use it and the Rocket News Desktop on a "many times a day" basis. Rocketnews currently provides searchable access to about 10,000 sources. I find Rocket especially strong in business and trade publications. Now, to the good news. ResourceShelf has learned that the Rocketnews web site (available at no charge) will soon be enhanced (in the next two weeks) with several new features. Enhancements include:
+ Users will be able to specify that they want results with keywords in the article title only, the article title and excerpt only, or the full article.
+ Using new parametric controls, users will be able to specify the location of the publisher (continent), and a type of news source (newspaper, trade journal, newswire etc.). This means, for example, that you will be able to search for news on Cisco from North American trade journals or from European newspapers.
+ Truncation/Stemming will be available.
+ Rocket News will increase the age of articles that can be searched on Rocketnews, moving from a 5-day archive to a 3 to 6 month archive.
+ Users will be able to rate and refine their search results. This will be similar to what's already available with the fee-based Rocket Desktop. Rocket's neural net technology makes it possible to enhance the accuracy of your search results by rating articles that are (or are not) relevant to your research interests.
+ Improved relevancy ranking
Look for these enhancements to "go live" in the next two weeks.

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