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March 12, 2005

Custom RSS feeds from Google.

Filed under: Uncategorized — giantkicks @ 11:51 am

+ I’ve been finding Google News stories less and less relevant lately. Until the recent addition of page customization. Now you can add as many story sections as you want, with up to 9 stories in each. I’ve deleted the Business (too general), Sports (?? what’s that..), Entertainment (too much gossip) and Health (too many general medical topics) sections, and created quite a few new ones. Now I’m finding I can hardly read all the interesting stories I’m finding.

Still on Google, they recently sent a cease and desist order to British programmer Julian Bond because he wrote a PHP script that displayed customized Google News feed on his website. Google is very possessive about their product, and does not allow third party sites to display their headlines………..but….. you can install his PHP script, gnews2rss, to create any number of customized Google News feeds to use in your RSS news aggregator!! Just don’t display them on your site :)

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