Basics

For Cleftstick alumni…

For participants of earlier courses back for refreshers: If you can't find the page you're looking for in the menus above and along the side, try entering a search term in the search box. The menus and sub-menus are reconfigured for individual classes, so that topics not covered don't crowd out the ones that will be. But the pages are still there.

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Search: Using Google News

The normal look:

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Click on one of the links on the left to narrow down the search, or check out the News Archive Search:

There you can either search news articles

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or build a timelineYoul’ll see a timeline from left to right, with the stories beneath:

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The size of each block indicates how many stories there were that month for the search specified. Click on a block to see those stories below:

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To go back to the old view, click on the News Articles link:

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If you want to save a search so that Google alerts you when fresh stories come in, click on the News Alerts link on the left.

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(If you want to save the search as an RSS feed, but don’t see a link, check out this post for how to make it happen.)

Also check out the experimential Google News Timeline. Here’s a search for Singapore Flyer:

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