If you have your own website, and would like to add news headlines to it, there are several sources of free news tickers that are very simple to use. Here are three popular ones: 7am Ticker, MSNBC Newsstand and Moreover.

Whether your work involves spotting trends or you are just plain curious, knowing what millions of people are looking for on the Internet is pretty interesting stuff. Four search engine pages that provide glimpses into search behavior and patterns are Google Zeitgeist (
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html ), Lycos 50 ( http://50.lycos.com/ ), Jeeves IQ (
http://www.jeevesiq.com/docs/about/jeevesiq.html ) and Yahoo! Buzz Index ( http://buzz.yahoo.com/ ).

The Internet is a great source of news because it is so timely and it can bring us news from many different sources and perspectives. To find a variety of international (or local) news sites, try News Directory ( http://newsdirectory.com ) or News Link ( http://newslink.org/ ).