Surf3D AGENT: AP-BreakingNews_1.xo WHAT IT DOES: Gathers news extracts from articles from Associated Press Breaking News located at http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/index.htm WHAT ITS GOOD FOR: Keeping track of particular types of news stories Getting relevant article summaries for many stories Getting first paragraph from breaking news articles HOW IT WORKS: Drills down into each news article in your search results and extracts the top paragraph from the news article. Also puts text flags on web nodes with article titles HOW TO SET IT UP: Save-As the provided AP-BreakingNews_1.xo to a new name, such asAP-BreakingNews_2.xo Type preferred text extract keywords into the Metric channel lines A and B and C currently A=Executive branch, B=Wartime, and C=Economy related terms HOW TO USE IT: Open the Agent and run it. After it picks up the top 50 article extracts, open the Report. If you want to rank articles by Politics, Wartime, or Economy, select A, B or C in the Report set up window. VARIATIONS TO TRY: Browse the different view buttons #1 through #8 Try different searches with different keywords for text extraction If you want to extract particular sentences from articles, type %TEXTanywhere in the Metric A and/or B and/or C text entry line