Google to add RSS functionality to Google News

Google Inc. plans to enhance its Google News article search service on Tuesday by adding content syndication, according to executives from the Mountain View, California, company.

The new feature will allow Google News users to set up RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or Atom content syndication feeds for specific Google News sections, such as entertainment, business or world news, and for specific terms users search for on Google News, such as “George Bush,” “diabetes” or “space shuttle.”

Users will also be able to set up RSS or Atom feeds for customized sections they create on Google News.

“This is another way of allowing users to access Google News information,” said Debbie Jaffe, Google’s senior product marketing manager for consumer products.

This is the single most requested feature by Google News users, said Nathan Stoll, Google News product manager.

The Google news feeds can be delivered to any RSS or Atom news reader service, including the personalized home page that Google offers users, which contains such a service, Jaffe said.

The new feature works only for Google News editions in English, which include sites for the U.S., the U.K., Australia and several other countries, Stoll said.

Google is not announcing any plans to extend the content syndication feature to Google News editions in other languages, he said, adding that Google has 22 localized editions of Google News in nine different languages.

What a grand idea, considering hor hard it is for moonbats to mess with the search engine </sarcasm>

2 posted on 08/09/2005 8:35:58 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")

Sorry--I've just decided to dump all Google from my machines. If they start censoring the news like they have been, then I can't trust them.

3 posted on 08/09/2005 8:38:45 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)

It's already active on the news site. That was fast.

4 posted on 08/09/2005 8:43:54 AM PDT by MattMa ("Void of ideas, driven by hate, vote Democratic in 2008" Stolen from Ankle Biting Pundits.)

Sorry--I've just decided to dump all Google from my machines. If they start censoring the news like they have been, then I can't trust them.

That's not censorship, they just refuse to talk to reporters who pissed them off. They have every right to choose the reporters they talk to. It's not like they removed all Google entries of CNET.

That's not censorship, they just refuse to talk to reporters who pissed them off.

Ahh. OK. I was a little busy here for a while and skimmed through really fast. I mis-read it.

Thanks for the clarification.

6 posted on 08/09/2005 9:15:46 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)

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