In my latest podcast I talk with Robin Johnson, CEO of FT Search. Part of Pearson’s Financial Times Group, FT Search recently launched the beta of newssift.com, a search engine geared towards the needs of those seeking to understand businesses and the environment within which they operate.

We discuss newssift, and some of the practical issues involved in delivering timely and reliable business intelligence.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Bloomberg
• Dow Jones
• Economist
• Factiva
• Financial Times
• Google News
• Interactive Data Corporation
• Lexalytics
• Media Cloud project, from Harvard’s Berkman Center
• Mergermarket Group
• Measures that Matter (server unavailable?)
• Nothing but Net (PDF)
• Nstein
• New York Times
• ReelTwo
• Sift of the Day
• Thomson Reuters
• Wall Street Journal
• Yahoo! Finance

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 28 May, 2009.

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