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Just a brief mention of a news search site that recently went live. We can always use more news sites right? This one’s called ez2news. It provides news under 16 nationalities, all displayed at the top of the default homepage as small hyperlinked flags which lead to sub sites. These include Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, the UK, the US, China and Japan. It claims to crawl 12,500 news sites for info.

Under categories at the left hand side of the page, you can select to sort by: Country, Language, Topic, Today in History, Top News, US Business, US News, US Sports, War in Iraq and Weather World. Although it’s being hosted someplace in Europe, ez2news seems to be catering more to the American market, judging by categories selection. Keep an eye out for more updates to the site since it’s still pretty new.

Via Pandia.

Online shoppers now have access to a new search engine called Mpire. But instead of comparing new products, this engine combs online auctions and classified ad sites, listing and comparing used items.

Mpire claims to retrieve used product information from over 20 million sites, some of which include eBay, Yahoo, Overstock.com and Craigslist, and has an established partnership with eBay to power its Collector’s Corner. It displays a shopping tag cloud showing the most sought after items, and shows price averages for used products over the last 30 days, so shoppers know if they’re getting a deal or not. Alerts can be set up to email shoppers when prices drop or when new selections become available, and sellers can list items for free or pay a fee for optimal service.

Mpire is based out of Seattle Washington. Thanks blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com for the heads up.