More ways to stay updated in general. Google has been in beta for a while with their new News search service. Now its really starting to cook having added more than 4000 news sources, and is challenging a lot of other news gathering services.
So now it shold be even easier to stay updated on the lastest Macromedia Flash News
Hi Jarle, I’m glad you’re hip to this too… I don’t know what I’d do without Google, myself…. ;-)
For what it’s worth, I use a slightly different term at Google News: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&scoring=d&q=%22macromedia+flash%22
This searches for the phrase “Macromedia Flash” (rather than individual words), and sorts so that the most-recently-found articles appear at top of the list. (I actually search on “macromedia” rather than “macromedia flash”, because I look for all news items, but if I just wanted Flash stuff I’d use quotation marks in the search term.)
Over at AllTheWeb’s news engine I use this term:
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?advanced=1&cat=news&type=all&q=macromedia&jsact=&l=any&ics=iso-8859-1&cs=iso-8859-1&newssrc%5Ball%5D=on&dincl=&dexcl=&hits=10&age=1d
I think some of those query terms may be extraneous and could be culled for a bookmark. Some of the returned hits from this engine are in languages I can’t display.
Note that these are all the most-recently-indexed articles, rather than the most recent articles… I don’t think search engines yet use the document-creation date when sorting results.
One other search-engine trick I’ve been using lately has been a Google term to restrict searches to the Macromedia Designer & Developer Center… just add this to any query: “site:macromedia.com inurl:desdev”. This helps if you know you read an article there but get too many additional hits when trying to do a universal search an an engine.
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