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I have also started using TED again recently and comparing it with a service supplied by www.Xtender.com, a seven-day free trial for which I accessed through www.eubusiness.com TED has improved in a quantum fashion so that I find that I can actually use it now whereas I completely gave up on it in the past. I corresponded with one of its webmasters who tells me that the database is split into two: "1?) the current one which only contains the valid notices (the ones for which you can still apply); 2?) the archive database which contains all the notices which have been published for the last 5 years (up to 1997). The new TED interface now offers the possibility of saving up to 5 different search masks : you have to click on the 'Save profile' icon available in the light-yellow left part of the screen." To search the back catalogue, you need to click the archive tick-box and, although the system still isn't completely idiot-proof (not for this idiot anyway) the saved searches are still there when you come back although you need to use the same computer as before since the system doesn't ask you to register. I guess it is using cookies to recognise the machine. On Xtender - the jury's still out in that I found I couldn't use it without referring back to TED itself on some occasions. But as an alerting service that will surely improve for 500 pounds per year, it is tempting. I would feel bad about taking it rather than an EIC-provided service though. How would EICs out there compete with it? Yours mischievously Peter Barron, General Manager, Charlemagne Group, 2 Enys Road, EASTBOURNE, BN21 2DE, UK Tel: +44(0)1323 434 711 (direct); fax: +44(0)1323 434 702/720 Visit our website: http://www.charlemagne.co.uk Want to know where your nearest EU information is? http://www.europe.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Overy [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:51 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: TED The online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal, Tenders Electronic Daily, has redesigned its web pages. It now has a much improved search screen with greater possibilities of saving searches and also allows webmasters to link directly to the text of a particular contract. The service has the text of the past five years. http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/static/home/en/homepage.ini ---------------------- Patrick Overy EDC Librarian University of Exeter Law Library Amory Building Rennes Drive EXETER EX4 4RJ tel. (01392) 263356 fax.no. (01392)263196 e-mail: [log in to unmask] internet http://www.ex.ac.uk/library/internet/eurostudies.html