Just the News
you want

Every user wants to get to his or her News interests fast. Large search engines are generalized. Par ·a ·digm NEWS search is News specific. We only search News sites, so now you can retrieve News articles more specifically and faster. While major search engines may be full of old data, only Par ·a ·digm NEWS search crawls News sites every few hours, assuring you of the latest in News!

For example, if you conducted a search for the word "Mars", you would get an overwhelming number of sites returned. Your search would include everything from candy bars to mythology, when in fact you were interested in the latest News regarding the exploration of the planet Mars. Par ·a ·digm NEWS search allows you to find all the stories on the topics you're looking for, quickly and easily.

This is an excellent due-diligence tool for journalists, legal professionals and investors. By using keywords, you can search the major News sites of the Internet, finding only the relevant and current answers to your query.

How to perform
a simple search

Click in the search box, and type a your keyword(s) that identify your topic.

For example, typing "hurricane" will return to you a list of links to all current stories containing the word hurricane. Searches produce a list of links to stories that contain the keywords or phases that you enter. Remember to use descriptive words for more accurate searches. For example: a search for "Linguine" will return much more specific result than a search for "pasta".

Query results, how to read them

After you have executed a search, results are returned to the main frame on the TotalNEWS site.

The first line tells you the title of the article. The information is red, bold letters and is an active link.

The next group of text is the keyword centered excerpt, which shows you the keyword highlighted and in the context of the online article. For multiple keyword searches, only the first word is highlighted.

The next line is the URL to the article. The information is red italic letters and is the same active link as the article title. This is followed by the date and time the article was indexed and it’s size.

The following is an example from the search for the word "catholic":

General
rules

• Par ·a ·digm NEWS search searches only the World Wide Web. Usenet (news groups), are ignored
• All searches are case insensitive, so you can type your query in upper or lower case. For example: "President Clinton" is the same as "president CLINTon.".
• Capitalization is ignored, therefore proper nouns and names may be entered in any manner.
• Exception words are ignored, for English, this includes "a", "an", "and", "as" and other common words.
• Words with less than 3 characters are ignored. For example: "we", "12", "by", "oh" and "bi" are ignored, but "Jim", "747", "Feb" and "bar" are used in searches.
• Plurals and simple derivation of words are treated as the root word. For example searches on "stone", "stones" and "stoned" will all produce the same results. If you are searching for an exact word and do not want any root, plural or derivative, simply place it between quotes ("); it will be considered like a phrase and exact results will be returned.
• Punctuation marks such as the period (.), colon (:), semicolon (;), and comma (,) are ignored during a search.
• To use specially-treated characters (&, |, ^, #, (, ), @, $) in a query, enclose your query in quotes (").
• Wildcard searches are not supported. For example: "jack*" will not return "jackass", "jackrabbit", "jackson" etc.

Rules for more
advanced Searches:
multiple keyword
searches

You may use as many keywords as necessary. Keywords should be separated by a space. Use multiple keywords to narrow your search, however, using too many keywords will slow your search and may result in your missing a few good articles.

Multiple keywords are treated inclusively, that is they are regarded as a Boolean "AND" operator. It is not necessary to use the plus sign (+) or the work "AND" between keywords.

If you search for "campaign" and "Congress", Par ·a ·digm NEWS search will return results that contain both words. Query results are sorted by the predominance and the proximity of the keywords. The first results will usually contain more of the keywords and/or feature them in the title.

Phrases

Phrases or search strings are distinguished from multiple keyword searches by enclosing a group of words in double quotes, ("). Example: "Space Shuttle", "Boston Pop Orchestra"

FAQ's

Par ·a ·digm NEWS search index contains headlines, world News, and News on business, politics, entertainment and sports. The index is updated every few hours.

Par ·a ·digm NEWS search removes stories that are no longer available on-line as it updates it's index. This prevents linking to bad URL's or trying to find web pages that no longer exist.

Due to the nature of the Internet, some results may be erroneous because of the publication of new articles to static URL's. This may occur between indexing cycles and are soon properly referenced.

Par ·a ·digm NEWS search is a TotalNEWS homegrown search engine, not based on any commercial software.