MSN Search Introduces Feed Search
Amidst the clamor for Google or Yahoo! to launch blog-specific searching, Robin Good notes that Microsoft released to new feed-oriented search operators in MSN Search:
- feed: The feed operator returns feeds matching the search query. The results are raw feeds; click on one and you get .xml code. However, click on the “Cached page” link to see an intelligible feed display as you would in a newsreader. MSN crawls full feed content.
- hasfeed: this operator returns matched results of Web pages that include a link to a feed. By and large, the linked feed is the feed for that page or site, not another, so hasfeed: offers a secondary and more familiar, Web-centric method of finding content.
These new operators are important and groundbreaking. While this feature does not constitute a blog search engine (all kinds of information sites provide feeds, not just blogs), angling into the MSN Search index via feed searching brings up revelatory results. Furthermore, this creates a centralized location for blog-specific searching.
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My less-favourable review of msn's rss search: http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2005/08/31/733/
MSN Search gives you feed for your search results.
If you search for feeds - using feed: - and you take the feed for your search results, you have got something working like an OPML feed (actually it is RSS but this is not so important).
Maybe I will use this for my different Online-RSS-Readers (I mean the readers I created).
Perhaps as an equivalent to OPML-import for my Bookmark/Newsfeedmanager.
Or maybe for my other readers which show content from up to 12 feeds together on one page: This will mean (after a bit of modification):
- Search for a keyword.
- The reader will automatically show title etc. and content of the found feeds.
OK, maybe this will not always make sense, but sometimes.
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