TC: “Searches can be saved, creating an interesting prospective news search tool. You can create your own memetracker for any industry or topic. I am not sure I would use Newssift every day to stay on top of the latest news, but I can see it as a useful research tool when I have to really dig deep into a topic. It does better with business news than technology. Still, it is worth checking out in that it employs several subtle navigational techniques that make it more of a discovery engine than a search engine.”

SEL: “A team of editors helps choose and aggregate the sources that Newssift crawls, but Johnson says the engine gives no preference to Financial Times news articles. Indeed, on a purely anecdotal level, I rarely saw Financial Times articles appearing in the results of the dozen or so queries I did. … With Newssift now in its public beta, the creators are looking for user feedback and say they’re planning to expand the source list by crawling more online news sites, including blogs.”