Google News RSS Feeds

So most of you know that I’ve been using www.bloglines.com to read about 20 RSS feeds, both blogs and news, for some time. You can see many of them in the Blogroll to the right. Big deal, I’ve still got information overload syndrome. But now Google just released a technology that NOT ONLY lets you get RSS feeds from Google News, but also lets you read search results feeds.

i.e., I can create a feed in Bloglines like

http://news.google.com/news?q=lemurs&output=rss

and it will feed me the latest news on lemurs. For some reason, I’m thinking this is really cool. It makes me think that almost any one-way communication that used to be delivered by email would be better served as RSS. Newsletters, for example. Announcements, updates, etc.

RSS needs to catch on a bit more now. Vista will have it. Apple’s Safari does a pretty good job at doubling as an RSS reader. I wonder how KDE and Akregator will evolve, keeping in mind that Plasma will thrive on dynamic, content-focused data.

UPDATE: Why is this Google search feed so cool? Because you can have an RSS feed about ANYTHING now. If you want an XBOX 360 feed, you got it.

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By Philip Cain

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