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Figure 7.14 a lot to ill out, but you can really narrow your queries.
When you've adjusted the query and the publications so you're getting a
useful number of results, click the Save Alert button. You'll be kicked back
to the original Search Alerts page, only this time there is a saved alert avail-
able. You can review any results since you last looked at the alert, as well as
edit the alert (change the search parameters) or delete it.
One caveat: when Northern Light sends you e-mail alerts, they give you
only a link back to the content, not a summary of the content in the articles
found. Furthermore, the information is sent in an HTML e-mail. If you use
an e-mail account that is not HTML-capable, then you won't be able to link
back to Northern Light's alerts.
Possibilities
We've looked at search engines that break out searches by publication, and
another engine that breaks out searches by kind of content. Northern Light
breaks down its sources by kind of research. See if you can use speciic types
of research when building your research queries.
News searching is the cornerstone of information trapping. When you're
trapping at news search engines, you're referring to a constantly updat-
ing pool of information that is, on the whole, far more credible than the