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MSN Newsbot

MSN Newsbot uses search and MSNBC to gather news from over 4,000 sources on the internet. Read all about it at the MSN Sandbox. Try the US version at http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com But if you live some place else visit the Sandbox site for direct links to well over 20 custom bots for different languages, countries and parts of the world.

- Alfred Thompson

Published Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:20 PM by kevinbri

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# re: MSN Newsbot

Friday, May 13, 2005 2:17 AM by Aamer
Pretty neat site. One of the cool distinctions MSN Newsbot makes from Google News is that it lets you browse related images.

Try clicking on an image rather than the headline. You will see a section for "additional images" where you can scroll through all the images related to that story. Very neat.

Also, Newsbot keeps a record of which stories you have been viewing and uses that to calculate what you might find most interesting. Look under the "Personalized News" section to see stories that you are likely to be interested in. This is also seems to be another feature that distinguishes Newsbot from Google News.

# re: MSN Newsbot

Friday, May 13, 2005 3:56 AM by Fraser Dickson
Cool. First thing I look for though (with any news website) is that little Orange Button with RSS in it! :-)

Don't see one here though :-(

Looks like a nice service, and one that I would look at but without a good quality RSS feed I don't think I'll be bothering in the near future..... shame.

# re: MSN Newsbot

Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:02 PM by Aamer
Good point, I never noticed there was no RSS link, at least not one that is clearly advertised.

MSNBC currently has several RSS feeds and I imagine Newsbot probably will too by the time it gets out of Beta.
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