A Better Search Engine for News

Traditional web searches are not well suited for the news. Backlink ranking methods, such as Google's PageRank, are only good in retrospect, after an article or post has been around for long enough to collect inbound links. News needs to be fresh. Standard document similarity measures do not factor in the relative significance of an article on Iraq from The Guardian compared to one from an obscure blogger.

To solve these issues, we have developed SARE (Semantic Authority Ranking Engine). It semantically analyzes all of our articles and blogs and their links, and quantitatively describes for each source their domain of authority. When you perform a search, the domain of authority for each source is consulted and used to rank the results. For example, if you search for "iPod", you will tend to get sources like AppleInsider, Engadget, and Gizmodo. If you search for John McCain, you will tend to get sources like The New York Times, Politico, and Time.

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Twitter News Server

News moves quickly, and so do you. Now you can create and receive news alerts anywhere you can get a bar on your phone, if you have a Twitter account. You can find more information on our Twitter Tool page.

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Daylife Does Link Analysis

We've started to roll out a next-generation link analysis system, that will allow us to bring blogs to the fore, and will eventually be worked in to our system on several levels. You can view a prototype of a new application right now: our Labs list of top-linked articles. This page also has a new "Flush" feature. When you Flush the page, whatever articles are displayed, you'll never see them again.

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River of Opinion

We've mashed together a couple Daylife Labs and DayPI features to bring you a River of Opinion -- a stream of editorials broken out by category. This one blends our contextual source-rank algorithm, journalist profiles, opinion detection, and a real-time heat ranker that helps pull out hot topics in the news.

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Source and Journalist Contextual Ranking

This is another experimental addition to our source and journalist centered news site. Why would you want to search every source on the planet for news? Who you get your news from is important, and we want to give you more control. When you perform a search, we analyze your search phrase and calculate a rank for each source and journalist given the context. Then we let you narrow your search down to specific sources. Or if you want to search the world's news, you can do that too.

Start with a general search of all sources, and get a list of recommended sources and journalists. Or search within a single source. You can also start with one of our Source Profile pages.

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Journalist Pages

This is an experimental news site centered around journalists and bloggers. Looking for articles from Paul Krugman, or Gina Kolata? You can get their latest articles, an RSS feed or Flash Widget for any one or combination of journalists, the topics they most frequently cover, a list of journalists who cover the same beat, and a word cloud built from their recent articles. You can also search our exhaustive list of jouranlists.

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SentimentAI

We have been working hard on various AI techniques for identifying editorials and sentiment. Interested in the pro and con positions for political candidates? Who's having a bad news day? Looking for a positive spin on the sub-prime mortgage crisis? We can't help you with that last one, but the others can be found using our Public API. We also have a cool widget that surfaces the best and the worst over the last few days.

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Daylife News Trends

Track news volume for various search terms using our extensive database. You can even build your own graph and permalink to it.

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Most Popular Topics

Curious what topics other users are interested in? Checking for pulses? Try our most-viewed topics. We are also calculating the most clickable topics, a measure of how often a user clicks around a topic page. What's so interesting about the NASA topic page? The coolest pictures in the known universe, that's what!

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Red Carpet

A different kind of star sighting. See who’s showing up at the top parties, looking glam, and doing what they do best. We extract the names of the hottest Red Carpet affairs, organize images from them, and show you who's rolling with who.

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