NEWS ONLINE

CONTENTS:

• MSNBC Newsbot
• Newsletter Access
• Rocketinfo's RocketNews

MSNBC NEWSBOT

MSNBC Newsbot has introduced a beta version of its search engine that pulls news from nearly 5,000 Internet sources. Perform queries and then refer to the history of your searches that the MSNBC service maintains for you. MSNBC has beta sites for different countries and languages, such as Switzerland (French and German), Latin America , U.S. (Spanish), Germany and Singapore so you can search the world for news about your prospect.

Additionally, the MSNBC Newsbot site offers up-to-the-minute stories indexed by common beats like Business and Technology.

The newsbot is still in beta so feel free to use the Webform to make a suggestion or report an error at http://support.msn.com/feedback.aspx?productkey=newsbot.

http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com/

NEWSLETTER ACCESS

Newsletter Access is hit or miss for pertinent newsletters for the research business. It does provide the option to search all the independent newsletters it offers with one query. The day of this review, it boasted 9,565 newsletters. Dig into newsletter resources on advertising, business, health and technology.

Read a little about a newsletter in "Today's Newsletter Pick" or find new additions to Newsletter Access in "Newsletters Just Added."

Results offer the name of the newsletter, frequency, the cost (or not, if it is free), description, publisher and contact information.

http://www.newsletteraccess.com/

ROCKETINFO'S ROCKETNEWS

RocketNews was a recent Webby Award nominee for best news site. With over 10,000 current news and information sources, it may troll the most news sources with its news search engine. At RocketNews, select from its news channels or search its information sources for your newest prospect. If you need to register to continue reading a story at the actual news source site, RocketNews lets you know.

Also, use the free Rocket RSS Reader to search, read and track content from RSS and Atom newsfeeds, as well as Weblog sources, or create your own keyword search-based news.

http://www.rocketnews.com/news/index.jsp

Pamela J. Smith

FORWARD International

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