Create customized news feeds using Google News
Posted on March 25, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Even with all the ways to get instant access to news: visit an online newspaper, bookmark a site, or wade through a bunch of RSS feeds, there is still not a good way to get information on EXACTLY what you are interested in. Let’s say during the Cricket World Cup, you want information only about one team player or the coach, you couldn’t do it unless you went to some site dedicated to cricket at which point you’d have to search for that person…too much time and trouble to bother with!
Well, wouldn’t it be great if you could create a customized news feed on…let’s say…Britney’s latest breakdown? Or how about Panda bear protection in China? Well whatever you’re interested in, you can now use Google News Feed to hone in on your news.
The feeds are basically a filter on the Google News pages which has news from all over the world. Google has feeds for the nine sections of news on their site: Top Stories, Sci & Tech, Sports, etc. You can grab any of those nine here. But this is not the cool part.
The great feature is that you can go to the Google News homepage, perform a search and then you will find a link for an RSS feed that is customized just for your search. That way you’ll get any of the latest news on that particular search. The RSS link is a couple of inches down on the left side of the browser.
Add this feed URL into your favorite feed reader and you’ve got yourself automatically updating dynamic feed that’s just like the rest of your feeds! And the great part is that you can create a feed at any time by perform a search and click the RSS button! So if you have some seasonal interests such as sports or holiday stuff, or want to track current world events in your country, this is the tool! And if you have IE7 (which you probably do since Automatic Updates makes you download it), then you don’t even have to download a separte RSS reader! You can view it directly within IE7!
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070318/tc_cmp/198000885
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What exactly is this RSS feeds and what are it’s benefits? I mean is it a news ticker like the stock market quotes provided by yahoo ???