Google to provide RSS Feed for Search Results
Posted by Saad as Google, News
So finally its happening - Google has decided that its going to provide RSS feed of it’s search results! When it happens, the RSS feeds will be an additional feature of Google Alerts, which currently only allow notification by email.
Matt McGee at Search Engine Land has pointed out that Google is the only major search provider that is not offering their search results via RSS.
Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb wrote that once this feature is implemented Google web search feeds should include “site:” searches for new mentions of keywords inside particular domains so that they can deliver nice clean direct URLs - which Live.com feed is already doing well.
My Two Cents
I think its an excellent addition to Google Alerts. I personally use it to keep track of my blog - like who is linking to me, where my name gets mentioned etc. But currently I only can receive the alerts via email which sometimes gets really hectic because I have many such ‘alerts’ in place (in both Google + Yahoo) and my inbox often gets jam packed. So if google provides a RSS feed of their results page, it would be very easier to just subscribe to the feed and track it on a daily basis.
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Google is really creative and they seem to have done again, would be very cool to subscribe to various search result queries and I think SEO’s are really going to love this feature.
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