Moreover News Metabase

Power business information services and Web applications with live online news.

  • Real-time news from more than 30,000 sources through a single API
  • Links to over 400,000 articles a day
  • Client-side data for complete design and integration control
  • Enriched with categorisation and metadata to intelligently index, sort and serve

The Moreover News Metabase is a live, continuously updating database of aggregated online news. Customers receive the data through an enriched XML feed that they use to create a client-side index of real-time news, which is then deployed in clients' original applications and products.

Power News Search and Services

The Moreover Metabase powers business applications by leading companies across multiple markets, including online search engines, B2B and B2C portals, publishers, professional networking sites, business information services, corporate intranets, and media monitoring businesses.

Our customers are as varied as there are uses for real-time news, and cover both business and consumer focused applications, including:

  • Corporate media monitoring
  • Distributed news for global organizations
  • Media monitoring OEM
  • PR and reputation management tools
  • Business news for B2B portals and directories
  • Business & financial news for trading terminals
  • Market and industry research services
  • Online search engines and news sites

The Metabase is provided in pure data format, leaving customers free to plug it into their IT systems and design their own implementations on top.

Real-time news from thousands of sources

Moreover's proprietary indexing technology continuously monitors thousands of sources across the globe for the latest articles, which are then categorized, ranked, and enriched with more than 35 pieces of descriptive metadata. Within minutes of publication, articles are made available to clients via an enriched XML data feed, allowing for standard and flexible integration into any database or application.

Depth and breadth of coverage

Moreover indexes articles from over 150 countries across more than 50 languages, for a truly global representation of breaking online news. The News Metabase covers the following types of sources:

  • Top international news and business publications
  • Trade, finance and industry sources
  • Corporate press pages
  • News from NGOs, government and political websites
  • Scientific and medical publications
  • National and local press from all continents
  • Sports and consumer sources

Moreover also covers thousands of premium blogs. For more information on blogs and other social media please see the UGC Metabase service.

Standard XML Technology

Clients access the Metabase XML feed through standard HTTP calls over the Web, scheduled at regular intervals to receive all the latest headlines since the previous call. The Metabase XML allows for easy and flexible integration with all standard search and database technologies, from where it can be deployed into practically any application environment.

Features

The Moreover News Metabase comes with the following features:

  • Over 400,000 articles daily from over 30,000 global sources
  • Articles delivered within minutes of publication
  • Over 35 metatags for indexing and categorization purposes, including
    • Source and homepage link
    • Language
    • Region, country, state, zip code of the source
    • Editorial source rank
    • Source topic
    • Article news categories
    • Stocktickers
    • Images
  • Unparalleled breadth of content, all industries covered
  • Provides a client-side database for maximum control and flexibility
  • Web-standard XML, simple API

For: media monitoring companies, portals, publishers, search engines
Related products: Search Engine Toolkit, UGC Metabase