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Saved Searches
he Saved Search page lets you build several diferent types of saved searches,
including company searches, such as companies within a certain radius of a
certain place with a certain number of employees, and so on ( Figure 7.12 ).
Figure 7.12
Want to do business
monitoring within a
speciied area? The
saved search is a
“must try.”
he nuts and bolts of all the diferent types of Saved Searches is a little out-
side the scope of this topic, so I encourage you to investigate Hoover's ofer-
ings. Meanwhile let's take a look at the more prosaic trapping features.
Hoovers' Saved Searches can build a custom news search that lets you search
both by keyword and company stock ticker. You won't have the option to
choose between publications, but you can choose whether you want to
search for news stories, press releases, or both.
You can also search for companies that will or are in the process of iling
for an IPO. You can search underwriters, location (state or metro area), and
industry. And the stock screener lets you specify a series of data points about
publicly traded companies and receive listings of stocks that match those data
points (again, this is a little outside the scope of this topic, but worth investi-
gating because this type of information isn't easy to ind on the Web).