My Three Favorite Independent News Search Services

1. Topix: indexes 10,000 English language sources including blogs. Categorizes content by keyword. Offers pre-defined and user-defined RSS feeds. No foreign language sources.

2. RocketNews: claims to cover 16,000 websites plus 70 000 RSS feeds and blogs. Offers pre-defined and user-defined RSS feeds. Content older than one week (my estimate) removed from database.

3. NewsNow: searches 22,000 sources including blogs in English and foreign languages. Must be subscriber ($) to execute searchs using more than one keyword. No RSS feeds offered. UK based.