Surf3D AGENT: ReutersNewsAgent.xo WHAT IT DOES: Gathers news extracts from articles from Reuters Breaking News located at www.reuters.com 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 ReutersNewsAgent.xo to a new name, such as ReutersNewsAgent_2.xo Type preferred text extract keywords into the Metric channel lines A and B and C currently A=Topics, B=Reactions, and C=Article Type related terms HOW TO USE IT: Go to the reuters.com web page Select one of the Breaking News categories from thier pull down menu. Open the Agent and run it by clicking on the 'G' icon (the supplied agent has an outdated seesionID, so you need to do this above step to get your ownunique sessionID) After it picks up the top 100 news article extracts, open the Report by clicking on the Page icon. If you want to rank articles by Topics, Reactions, or Article Type, select A, B or C in the Report set up window. VARIATIONS TO TRY: Browse the different view buttons #1 through #8 Turn on the Caption to make it easier to understand what is being displayed 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 lines