Factiva.com enhancements and changes scheduled to occur on October 7, 2006 include:
Search 2.0 Enhancements
Changes to Did You Mean?
In direct response to customer feedback, the Did You Mean? capability will now ask you to confirm the company name or RIC/Ticker that Factiva has suggested (as it already does for search phrases), rather than automatically running the suggested company name.
Search with Right Click
When you are reading an article in Factiva, you often run across companies, events or ideas that you’d like to know more about. Search 2.0 makes it easy to run another search directly from the article that you’re viewing. Simply highlight the word(s) you’re interested in and right-click with your mouse. A search on the word(s) you selected will automatically be performed. A separate window with your new search results will pop up so you can view your results without disrupting your current research session.
New Web Content
During the next six months, we will be devoting significant resources to build a new robust web content collection in Factiva Search 2.0. Our goal is create a significant collection of the world’s leading business and news websites and blogs by the end of March. In addition to featuring postings from the most influential business and industry blogs, the new web content will include discovery capabilities such as charts and graphs.
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Post Processing Enhancements
The ability to save and share research adds real value for Factiva users and we’re moving forward with an aggressive plan to add new sharing capabilities over the next 12 months.
Initial enhancements in October improve how you can save or print search results by expanding the options of what to print or save. Currently you can save/print full text articles (or articles in the format you are viewing). In October, we will offer the ability to save/print different views, including:
- Headlines with lead sentence
- Full-text articles (including any images)
- Headline and articles with a Table of Contents (TOC)
In addition, you can save in a variety of formats, including RTF, PDF and XML.
RSS & Factiva
Factiva takes advantage of growing technology and offers RSS as a way to embed our content in a user’s workflow. Editor’s Choice, Group Track Folders can now be delivered within any RSS reader, providing more choices and flexibility for the customer.
RSS & Editor’s Choice
Editor’s choice is designed to give customers a quick sense of the current state of an industry. It covers 30 industries with a limited selection of trend stories, analyses, commentary, profiles and overviews taken from the entire Factiva.com database. Editor’s Choice selections are created by industry specialists on Factiva’s editorial team. Each industry channel receives and average of 10 – 15 articles a week.
