newsnow.co.uk

newsnow is one of the largest online news portals available. According to the tagline on the top of every page it searches 31004 sites every five minutes for information, although this number tends to go up day by day. What is a news portal? A news portal is website where the user can go and find out all the latest news from a certain topic, place, event or country. The portal will search all known reliable (and some unreliable!) sources to allow the user to get as wider knowledge of an issue as possible. In terms of an online portal, there is an automatic search engine that will search all (31004 in this case) websites, and then bring up a list of ...

The advent of the ubiquitous PC has had an enormous impact on the way we live our lives, and chief among the features of this brave new world is the surfeit of information available to us. In the past, the problem used to be being able to find things out - these days the issue is rather how to organise, store and access all that information, so that we are not, quite literally, swamped by all that information. News Now is a smart little portal like tool which helps with that devillishly challenging task. According to the people themselves "Started in 1997, NewsNow's services include NewsNow.co.uk, one of the UK's most popular news portals. Our ...

Question: Newsnow - Is it a portal? Is it a news site? Is it a search engine? Or is it a directory? The simple answer is that this site can be all of these.....and much more besides! For anyone that has not yet succumbed to the charms of this extremely clever site, that has revolutionised news provision on the world wide web, you will certainly not regret reading on to see what you have been missing. The primary purpose of Newsnow (www.newsnow.com) is to act as a news portal ie: to gather news articles on a diverse range of subjects. In the 'About Us' section, it describes itself as a "news aggregation site", and compiles ...