Chapter 5. News Search
News Search collects documents by crawling news related sites. It then parses and normalizes the data, categorizing it, calculating static rank, and placing it into an index, where it is available to search for thirty days from the time it was first crawled.
This chapter explains how to submit news search queries. It describes the following:
- Optional arguments
- Response fields
Note
The region/language pair of ph - tl is not available in News at this time.
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News Search collects documents by crawling news related sites. It then parses and normalizes the data, categorizing it, calculating static rank, and placing it into an index, where it is available to search for thirty days from the time it was first crawled.
This chapter explains how to submit news search queries. It describes the following:
- Optional arguments
- Response fields
Important
You must escape reserved characters to use them in argument values, although they are sometimes shown unescaped for readability.
Optional Arguments
These arguments are in addition to the Universal Operators described in BOSS Overview section. The following arguments are specific to news search.
| Argument (Optional) | Default value | Description |
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7d |
Use
NOTE: Maximum [value] cannot be greater than 1000. The default is 30 days, and valid values are [1-30]d. (News Search maintains a 30-day index.) The following example searches the full index:
Age can be specified using a string made an integer and one of the letters "s", "m", "h", "d" and "w" representing seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks. No spaces are allowed in the string. Some examples:
To specify an age range two values can be concatenated with a dash/hyphen for example:
Multiple ranges or more than one age parameter is not supported. |
orderby |
relevance | To order by date add orderby=date to the query string. Results
will be returned with the most recent first.
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view |
language | View=language identifies the language of the news
document.
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