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Find News on an International Company Using DIALINDEX?

TOPIC: When you need to find news items about an international company, the first place to go is DIALINDEX, File 411, the Dialog index file. This file allows you to search the indexes of files that are grouped by subject.

The following search example shows a strategy for retrieving articles about an international company that sells confectionary products. We want to find out if Cadbury Schweppes is in the chewing gum business. The DIALINDEX category selected is INTLNEWS. For the file listings in each category, use the Show Files command.

 

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 411
SET FILES INTLNEWS
SELECT CADBURY()SCHWEPPES/CO AND (SUGAR()FREE OR CHEWING)(2N)GUM/TI,DE,LP
SAVE TEMP
RANK FILES
BEGIN N1:N4
EXS
SELECT S1/2006:2008
RD

TYPE S3/8,K/1 FROM EACH
TYPE S3/9/155


HOW TO...



1. BEGIN DIALINDEX (File 411).

2. SELECT FILES (SF) to a specific OneSearch® category.

For a listing of files in this category, enter show files after you SELECT FILES (SF) to INTLNEWS.

For example:
?SF INTLNEWS
?SHOW FILES


?b 411
File 411:DIALINDEX(R)

DIALINDEX(R)
   (c) 2008 Dialog
***DIALINDEX search results display in an abbreviated***
***format unless you enter the SET DETAIL ON command.***

?sf intlnews
   You have 23 files in your file list.
   (To see banners, use SHOW FILES command)


3.
Use proximity connectors to connect search terms.

Use parentheses to "nest" concepts together. For the subject terms, restrict the search to the Title, Descriptor and lead paragraph fields.

Note: In DIALINDEX you must enter all search terms in one search statement.


?s cadbury()schweppes/co and (sugar()free or chewing)
(2n)gum/ti,de,lp

Your SELECT statement is:
   S CADBURY()SCHWEPPES/CO AND (SUGAR()FREE OR CHEWING)
(2N)GUM/TI,DE,LP
           Items   File
           -----   ----              450    20: Dialog Global Reporter_1997-2008               57   258: AP News Jul_2000-2008/Jan 07                7   471: New York Times Fulltext_1980-2008               20   583: Gale Group Globalbase(TM)_1986-2002                4   619: Asia Intelligence Wire_1995-2008                9   649: Gale Group Newswire ASAP(TM)_2008               19   710: Times/Sun.Times(London)_Jun 1988-2008  
   7 files have one or more items; file list includes 23 
files. One or more terms were invalid in 7 files


4.
Create a temporary SearchSave that will save your search strategy for 7 days.

5. RANK the files by results. RANK FILES numbers each database. These "N" numbers can be used with the BEGIN command.

The ranked list shows you the number of hits in each database. RANK FILES also shows which files did not have records with the search term requested.


?save temp
Temp SearchSave "TD511489831" stored

?rank files
Your last SELECT statement was:
   S CADBURY()SCHWEPPES/CO AND (SUGAR()FREE OR CHEWING)(2N)GUM/TI,DE,LP

Ref        Items   File
---        -----   ----
N1           450    20: Dialog Global Reporter_1997-2008
N2            57   258: AP News Jul_2000-2008/Jan 07
N3            19*  710: Times/Sun.Times(London)_Jun 1988-2008
N4             9   649: Gale Group Newswire ASAP(TM)_2008
N5             7   471: New York Times Fulltext_1980-2008
N6             4   619: Asia Intelligence Wire_1995-2008
  7 files have one or more items; file list includes 23 files.
   * One or more search terms are invalid in this file
        - Enter P or PAGE for more -

6. BEGIN files that had the most "hits " on the search question. Use a colon to create a range.

You can also BEGIN selected N numbers, separated by commas. Dialog now leaves File 411 and moves into the databases selected.

7. EXECUTE the temporary SearchSave. You can omit the name of the SearchSave because Dialog remembers the last one you created.

Note: If you log off and then log back on and want to execute the temporary SearchSave, you must use the name or number of the SearchSave.

?b n1:n3

SYSTEM:OS  - DIALOG OneSearch
  File  20:Dialog Global Reporter 1997-2008/Jan 07
         (c) 2008 Dialog
  File 258:AP News Jul 2000-2008/Jan 07
         (c) 2008 Associated Press
  File 710:Times/Sun.Times(London) Jun 1988-2008/Jan 06
         (c) 2008 Times Newspapers
      Set  Items  Description
      ---  -----  -----------
?exs
Executing TD511489831
>>>Term "LP" is not defined in one or more files
>>>Term "CO" is not defined in one or more files
           19523  CADBURY/CO
           17772  SCHWEPPES/CO
           16865  CADBURY/CO(W)SCHWEPPES/CO
          143965  SUGAR/TI,DE,LP
         1491008  FREE/TI,DE,LP
            2242  SUGAR/TI,DE,LP(W)FREE/TI,DE,LP
           13523  CHEWING/TI,DE,LP
           18280  GUM/TI,DE,LP
            7275  (SUGAR/TI,DE,LP(W)FREE/TI,DE,LP OR
                  CHEWING/TI,DE,LP)(2N)GUM/TI,DE,LP
      S1     526  CADBURY()SCHWEPPES/CO AND (SUGAR()FREE OR
                  CHEWING)(2N)GUM/TI,DE,LP

8. Limit the search to the latest years using a colon between the years to indicate a range.

9. REMOVE DUPLICATES creates a new set with unique items.

?s s1/2006:2008
             526  S1
        23923687  PY=2006 : PY=2008
      S2     192  S1/2006:2008

?rd
      S3     160  RD  (unique items)

10. TYPE set S3 in Format 8,K (Key Word In Context) for the first few records using the FROM EACH command.

For pricing information, enter HELP RATES nnn (where nnn is the file number).

Notice that Format 8 shows the title and descriptors and that the KWIC format provides a "window" of text containing your search terms and surrounding words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: Some of the records have been omitted from this display.

?t s3/8,k/1 from each
3/8,K/1 (Item 1 from file: 20)
DIALOG(R)File 20: Dialog Global Reporter
(c) 2008 Dialog. All rights reserved.

60936671
Soundbites

October 06, 2007
Word Count: 469
Company Names: Cadbury Schweppes PLC; J Sainsbury PLC;
Tesco PLC; WM Wrigley Jr Co; Waitrose Ltd
Descriptors: Company News; Marketing; New Products
& Services
SIC Codes/Descriptions: 5411 (Grocery Stores); 2066
(Chocolate & Cocoa Products); 2060 (Sugar & Confectionery
Products); 5400 (Food Stores); 2000 (Food & Kindred
Products); 5940 (Miscellaneous Shopping Goods Stores)
Naics Codes/Descriptions: 31132 (Chocolate & Confectionery
Mfg from Cacao Beans); 44512 (Convenience Stores); 445
(Food & Beverage Stores); 311 (Food Mfg); 4451 (Grocery
Stores); 44511 (Grocery exc Convenience Stores); 44
(Retail Trade); 3113 (Sugar & Confectionery Product Mfg)

...impulse category buyer, The Co-operative Group  aoe
"Shopper research conducted by Wrigley found that chewing gum is three times more likely to be bought on impulse than other  confectionery or snack foods. Typically consumers take no more than eight seconds to make their chewing gum purchases, which is why it should be well positioned in stores," Alex MacHutchon communications manager...
...supermarket own label chocolate. Similar proportions 
buy own label sweets and 8% prefer own label chewing gum. 
Sainsbury's SO range of chocolate is considered ethical 
by 8%, other general supermarket labels...
Company Names:  
Cadbury Schweppes PLC...
20071006
. . . .

3/8,K/155 (Item 1 from file: 710)
DIALOG(R)File 710: Times/Sun.Times(London)
(c) 2008 Times Newspapers. All rights reserved.

20159210

Cadbury buys Intergum

FRIDAY, June 08, 2007
Word Count: 157
2007

Text:
 Cadbury Schweppes accelerated its push into the global
chewing gum market
yesterday, gobbling up Turkey's
Intergum for Pounds 227 million.

11. TYPE the full record of documents that look relevant.

Note that we typed record 155.

?t s3/9/155

3/9/155 (Item 1 from file: 710)
DIALOG(R)File 710: Times/Sun.Times(London)
(c) 2008 Times Newspapers. All rights reserved.

20159210

Cadbury buys Intergum

Times of London ( TL ) - FRIDAY, June 08, 2007
By: Robin Pagnamenta
 Section: Business  Page: 55
Word Count: 157

Text:
 Cadbury Schweppes accelerated its push into the global
chewing gum market
yesterday, gobbling up Turkey's Intergum
for Pounds 227 million. Intergum is the market leader in Turkey's
rapidly growing gum market, witha 46 per cent share. It reported
revenues of Pounds 55 million last year.

The deal will cement Cadbury's position as one of the leading 
players in the Pounds 10 billion global gum market,
alongside
Wrigley, its American rival.
Cadbury already owns several leading gum brands, including Trident, 
which it recently launched in the UK, having bought the US
confectionery giant Adams for Pounds 2.7 billion in 2003.
Cadbury, which is selling off its US soft drinks arm, will present 
a new strategy this month for its core confectionery business. That
will include plans to trim about Pounds 200 million in annual costs.
The cuts are likely to trigger factory closures among Cadbury's
worldwide confectionery plants and reduce its global sweets workforce of about 50,000.
(c) Times Newspapers Limited 2007

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