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Adding Search functionality to Google Reader (or any other RSS reader)
by Jason Clarke Jan 3rd 2007 at 8:30AM
Google Co-op is a service you may have heard a bit about, and may have simply overlooked... I know I did at first. The idea is that you can give it a list of sites that have information pertaining to a very specific subject, and create a little search engine based on only those sites, filtering out everything else. At first this seems like a bit of a parlor trick, but it's actually a very powerful concept and one that can be exploited in a number of ways, like this: Why not use Google Co-op to create your own personal search engine that only searches sites that you have subscribed to in a feed reader?
Google Operating System offers the instructions, and they are blessedly short. Here they are, in essence:
- Get a local OPML file containing your subscriptions
- Create a new Google Co-op search engine, and use a bogus site or two when it asks for what sites to search
- Go to the Advanced section of the Control Panel for the new search engine you've created and upload your OPML file
- That's it. You might want to remove your bogus URL at this point.
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Michael Rose said 9:56AM on 1-03-2007
Easier still: http://www.blastfeed.com/
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Laurie said 12:18PM on 1-03-2007
I set this up for myself about a week ago but it has very limited usefulness if you have 500+ feeds unless you are searching for something very unique since the results include site names and aren't sortable by date. Blastfeed has been pretty good to me in the past month or so, however :)
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