Ifra launched a search engine to search for news about the newspaper industry last week.

The site returns results in three categories, including 'Ifra and partner sites', results from a select list of news sources, and results from the whole Web.

Searches can be done in English and German.

"We search stories about the news publishing industry, so people working in newspapers, irrespective of the platform they work on, can find information there," said Reiner Mittelbach, CEO of Ifra.

"The beauty of it is you can search the worldwide web, but only [relevant] pages that we have selected, because if you want to search for convergence you want to find news about convergence in newspapers, not biology or mathematics."

The site also brings forward membership pages published by Ifra and its partners that aren't usually crawled by search engine spiders.

Source: Editor & Publisher - European Journalism Centre - journalism.co.uk