Now this is neat: turning Google searches into a RSS feed

[sbisson]

http://www.razorsoft.net/weblog/stories/2002/04/13/google2rss.html

It's a .NET application that can be used to regularly run a search, and expose it as RSS. This is an excellent example of showing how the two basic web service models can cooperate. The query is run through a SOAP RPC call, and then output as a published RSS document, that any site can subscribe to using an RSS aggregator.

Comments

Re: RSS questions

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

an aggregator is one way to get around different blog systems; as you say one great thing about LJ is the network effect but there's no way to get external things in. I'd prefer the option of putting a My Links section on my LJ which is 'coming in S2' and is an 'easy but low priority' to do for the current system. When I have time I plan to hardcode them into a custom style.

LJ is available as RSS already; Simon has stuck ours on sandm.co.uk. You jsut put /rss/ on the end of your URL. So you can see My Gadget Stuff as http://www.livejournal.com/~techtoys/rss/

Re: RSS questions

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I think the "network effect" thing is a bad thing; I'd much rather be able to treat users of "LJ-compatible" systems the same way I can LJ users.

But I didn't know it already supported RSS - thanks! I note you don't get the bodies of the articles, just the titles, so you couldn't use it to build a "friends-page-alike" directly...