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.

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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...