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Google News Feeds

Google News Welcomes RSS & Atom Feeds

How do I use Google News feeds?

RSS tool sends out alerts for TV, radio

Google News Welcomes RSS & Atom Feeds

Google's latest feature enables you to receive Google News results as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or Atom feeds in your feed reader. With the RSS and Atom feeds, you can now view headlines from Google News as well as other news Web sites you're interested in, in one location, making it easier to keep up on breaking news from multiple sources.

Atom is a format quite similar to RSS. It was created by people who felt that RSS could be improved upon, and some that disagreed with some of the politics regarding RSS. The basic difference is that while Atom is somewhat more complex (for producers of Atom feeds), it is also able to carry more complex information, and it is consistent across the syndication, storage, and editing of information.

If you visit any English language Google News page will should now see RSS and Atom links. When you have a feed reader installed, clicking on either of these links will generate a feed of current stories related to the page you're looking at. Google News feeds are similar to Google Alerts, whereby you receive headlines and teasers with a link to click through directly to the news source to read the full story.

There are a number of ways you can access the new feeds. You can find a feed by clicking on a feed link while you're on a specific Google News page, get a feed for any search by clicking on the Atom or RSS link on the left-hand side of a search results page and pasting the resulting URL into your feed reader, create a feed of a customised news page by creating a customised news page, or add a Google News feed to your Google personalised home page. There really is no need to be out of touch.

Google is not planning to extend the content syndication feature to Google News editions in other languages. Google already has 22 localiced editions of Google News in nine different languages.

On a similar note, BIOS has had RSS feeds available on its site for over six months.

How do I use Google News feeds?

Google at last releases news feeds at this week: http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/news_feed_terms.html

To access Google News feeds, look for the RSS | Atom links on any Google News page. These links will generate a feed of current stories related to the page that you're looking at.

RSS tool sends out alerts for TV, radio

Published: July 19, 2005, 11:23 AM PDT
By Elinor Mills Staff Writer, CNET News.com
update Search company Blinkx launched a new service on Tuesday that lets consumers receive RSS alerts from a bevy of TV, radio and other broadcasters with which the company has partnered.
The service lets people type in a search term and choose from more than 30 broadcast channels to receive notifications on that topic. For example, users can create a "SmartFeed" button on weather in San Francisco and receive RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, alerts whenever that topic comes up in the broadcast channels the person selected.
Blinkx's Broadcast Web site uses voice recognition software to transcribe video and audio data into text for full-text searching. The broadcast channel lets people search from a wide variety of radio, television and sources including the BBC, CNN and HBO.
Web publishing standard RSS is emerging as a popular tool for alerting subscribers when new information has been posted to publications and blogs. Podcasters have also been using it to notify people of new audio content.
Blinkx recently unveiled a way to search inside podcasts and video blogs, which are blogs that use video as their primary presentation format. The privately held company also offers software for searching all kinds of data on desktops and the Web using contextual search technology, rather than keywords like other search engines use.