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Wall Street Journal
It's a hot day -- almost Vegas-hot -- but today's Wall
Street Journal has a short mention of Daypop
on the front page of its Marketplace section, so I braved the mid-day sun all
the way to Figueroa and 7th to pick up two copies. The title of the article
is "New Web Search Tools Offer Useful Shortcuts And Some Nice Twists."
It talks about Teoma, Vivisimo and Wisenut, three new contenders for Google's
crown, then ends with this:
One other new search site worthy of mention is Daypop. This site, at
www.daypop.com, isn't meant to compete with Yahoo, Google or other general-purpose
search tools. Instead, Daypop scans and indexes some 3,400 news sites and
weblogs, those personal online journals that usually contain commentary and
links to other sites.
Daypop's creator is Dan Chan, an avid weblogger who got the idea for
what he calls a "current events search engine" while trying to follow
news about the 2000 presidential campaign. For news junkies, especially in
the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, Daypop is a must-bookmark site.
This is really good coverage. I only hope that readers understand the distinction
being made here, that Daypop is a complement to general purpose search
tools and that it is able to index news sites and weblogs daily and in many
cases every few hours. Searches for news and commentary, what weblogs specialize
in, can turn up articles that appeared today.
One update: Daypop now indexes 4,200 news sites and weblogs from
around the world. This number is still increasing nicely given all the site
submissions and all my surfing the past few days.
Back to work.
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