LookSmart Launches Full Text Article Search

Posted on January 2, 2004

LookSmart, a provider of Internet search solutions, announced that it has launched a full text article search which provides access to 3.5 million articles from more than 700 publications. The new service, which replaces LookSmart's FindArticles publication database, will be available via a dedicated "Articles" tab on LookSmart.com.

All content available through the new service is free to access and read. Popular publications include Harper's Magazine, Variety, Better Homes & Gardens, Sunset, USA Today Magazine as well as numerous peer-reviewed medical journals and specialty publications. Content in the database include articles from issues of publications dating back to 1998.

"With this service, people can search three uniquely useful sources of data: our directory of topic-classified websites, our index of 1.2 billion web pages, and now, millions of quality articles," said Peter Adams, chief technology officer for LookSmart.

LookSmart also announced that it has built a number of advanced search features into the articles tab. Users may browse a magazine title by issue, search within a publication or exclude a publication from search results.

"With these helpful features, users will be able to find anything from medical papers to travel profiles, and from literary journals to celebrity biographies quickly and easily," said Adams.

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