Roll Your Own Yahoo! News RSS Feeds

An anonymous reader submits "O'Reilly Developer News is reporting that one of Yahoo's employee's has hacked together a way roll your own Yahoo! News rss feed. Jeremy Zawodney, said hacker, is also an editor of Linux Magazine. News search over RSS is a feature Googlites have been pining for. It's interesting that Yahoo has, in a round about way, beat them to the punch on this one."

Interesting

one of Yahoo's employee's has hacked together a way roll your own Yahoo! News rss feed.

In other news, one of Slashdot's employee's has hacked together a way roll your own misconstructed sentences.

Google still dominates

This is very cool but it not like yahoo can even compete with google. Google's search, toolbar, and news is still better. Yahoo needs to improve there page layout to expand with the size of your screen. Half of the screen is white space on yahoo's news area. We run high resolutions so that we can see more without having to scroll.

Not worth effort

With the relatively widespread use of RSS I'm really surprised that we are constantly forced to "roll our own" feeds. I mean, all I want is the front page of google news. Is it really that hard that all these news sites and such can't set up RSS for us? Freakin' Penny Arcade has RSS.

Link to the article

Thanks for the links to Google and Yahoo.. How about a Link to the article [zawodny.com]?

Direct Link

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001001.htm l

Buggy

It would seem that it only works for one word searches.

"sco" works, where "sco linux" does not work. I'd really look forward to this for my daily dose of SCO news...

Google News RSS

It's not offical, but it's been there for ages:

http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php

Memigo does this and more

[Plug] My newsbot [memigo.com] does News Search alerts plus context alerts (news articles it thinks you may like based on your past read/rated articles) and they are all available via customized RSS [memigo.com] and PDA feeds [memigo.com].

Round about way?

It's interesting that Yahoo has, in a round about way, beat them to the punch on this one.

Huh? How is this in a round about way?

Re:Googlites?

Should be Googlytes - & that doesn't even exist yet.

Re:Googlites?

'Googlites' is hardly a common term.

Weren't the Googolites one of those tribes in the Bible?

Yeah, like, I think the Israelites slew the Googlites because God was upset the Googolites were searching the Torah with the jaw-bones of shellfish while laying with men, or something.

It's in the Book of Gesundheit!, Chapter 42, or something.