Newslookup
Encyclopedia
Newslookup.com is a news search engine, news headline and news feed provider established in 2000, by Michael Kynast. The search engine crawls several thousand prominent news media sites providing results that are neither weighted in favor of any news organization or censored in any fashion.
Newslookup.com is the first news search engine to allow users to search by source region of the news organization and categorize by news media type (Newspapers, Television, Radio, Internet). This includes allowing the user to search and display results by document parts, including document body, meta keywords and meta description.
The site is driven entirely by open source software. The search engine core, DataparkSearch
, is an open source
search engine
written in C which is distributed under the GNU General Public License
.
The various database backends, user interface, headline editions, news wires, feeds and all other functions are driven by LAMP (software bundle)
.
In early 2004 Newslookup.com began presenting lead news headline history from top news sites in a fashion referred to as region and topical editions. In addition a news wire service was launched by site, region and topic that provided RSS
feeds for many international and top news sites lacking this service.
Newslookup.com is the first news search engine to allow users to search by source region of the news organization and categorize by news media type (Newspapers, Television, Radio, Internet). This includes allowing the user to search and display results by document parts, including document body, meta keywords and meta description.
The site is driven entirely by open source software. The search engine core, DataparkSearch
DataparkSearch
DataparkSearch is a search engine designed to organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system.DataparkSearch is written in C. Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, DataparkSearch is free software....
, is an open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
search engine
Search engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
written in C which is distributed under the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
.
The various database backends, user interface, headline editions, news wires, feeds and all other functions are driven by LAMP (software bundle)
LAMP (software bundle)
LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, referring to the first letters of Linux , Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and PHP , principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.The GNU project is advocating people to use the term "GLAMP" since what is known as...
.
In early 2004 Newslookup.com began presenting lead news headline history from top news sites in a fashion referred to as region and topical editions. In addition a news wire service was launched by site, region and topic that provided RSS
RSS (file format)
RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format...
feeds for many international and top news sites lacking this service.
External links
- Newslookup.com, Official page
- Dataparksearch, open source software used by Newslookup.com