dan maertens's List: Search

• ReadPrint is a free online library where you can find literally thousands of free books to read for free online, from classics to science fiction to Shakespeare.
• Many free books are available here to read online as well as magazines, journals, and e-books.
• The Online Books Page from the University of Pennsylvania allows the searcher to search and read actual online text of classic books. For example, a search for "Jane Austen" resulted in a huge list of everything Austen on the Web. Search results will give you links to where these works can be found in their entirety, as well as where they can be downloaded for free.

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• Google News offers 72 editions in 30 languages, drawing content from more than 50,000 sources.
• The time or date displayed (including in the Timeline of Articles feature) reflects when an article was added to or updated in Google News.”
• Social discussions in Google+ (but not from other social sites, such as Twitter or Facebook).
• So Google must rely on other clues, such as the date when a webpage file was saved or changed on a web server, or on-page dates inserted by either a writer or a perhaps less-than-reliable bit of code.
• This is a hidden gem – click on “see realtime coverage” and you’ll get streaming headlines as Google crawls and adds them to its index.
• But that’s not all – you’ll also see a timeline of the number of sources covering the story over the past month, links to “In Depth” coverage (similar to the “Spotlight” stories on the main news homepage menu), displaying stories that may not be super-fresh, but that offer deep or longer-lasting insight), and in some cases, related links (for example, in the story about North Korea, links to stories from South Korean news sources).
• Regular Google News search only allows you to search articles from the past 30 days; advanced news search retrieves content from the defunct Google News archives, with articles dating back in some cases to the 1800s.
• Want to learn more about Google News and how it works? Check out Google’s News Help, or Search Engine Land’s extensive Google News archive of coverage.

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