tell us how you do it

[stevemacdonald]

Finding new articles about Hayley on the Web isn't easy and 9 times out of 10 somebody's already beaten you to it. Amazingly, certain forum members have a supreme knack for scooping everyone else. You know who you are.

So let's come clean. How do you do it? What search engines do you use... Google? Cuil? Yahoo? What methods work best for uncovering breaking news or fresh interviews? Why are you so good at it in the first place?

Tell us how you do it.

[Richard]

Hello Steve!

I just search for 'Hayley Westenra' in Google News about twice a day. I've never bothered to set up Google Alerts.

Stephany tends to beat me in the mornings because she often logs in before I do, but I don't mind! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Richard

[roger]

I have had Google Alerts set up for years. Unfortunately, I rarely have time to check the email when it arrives which somewhat defeats the point but I feel sure that someone (Stephany!) will find it.

Roger

[Mark]

Hi everyone

I must admit, finding anything new out about Hayley on the net seems to escape me. I must admit to not looking through search engines every day ,but when I do, everything listed seems to be old stuff Do you have to scan through page after page to find something new or is anything new automatically on page one - I've never quite worked that one out

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that Stephany has access to something other than Google, which is why she is so good at finding things Perhaps I just need to search more often i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Regards

Mark

[roger]

Aug 1, 2008 10:54:20 GMT Mark said:

Do you have to scan through page after page to find something new or is anything new automatically on page one - I've never quite worked that one out

Hi Mark,

You have the choice. Once you have found the matches, you can select either "sort by relevance" or "sort by date". If the latter, then the most recent will appear at the top of the first page.

The advantage of using the automatic Google Alert method is that you don't have to search for anything. It drops into your mail box as if by magic whenever any new item is available.

Roger

[socalboy]

Aug 1, 2008 10:54:20 GMT Mark said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that Stephany has access to something other than Google, which is why she is so good at finding things Mark

Mark:

That was my recollection as well. The lexis/nexis database provides online versions of tens of thousands of publications worldwide. I was under the impression that Stephany accessed such a database through her school. But I'm sure she will tell us more accurately.

[graemek]

Yes, & Hi All.
Stephany told us quite openly I think that she had ready access to stuff because she was a student & would have to have paid a fortune in fees to just download her normal research requirements otherwise.

As for me, I rarely scoop some interesting Hayley tit bit that someone else hasn't got to first.

On several occasions I've posted something only to find I'd double posted it.
When you think you have the latest item its quite annoying when you find its there already.
Even tho its for the good of everybody in HWI
Graeme :zz