I had a feeling this wasn't a completely new idea.
It's unclear to me if Feedster allows a user to subscribe to a search as an RSS feed, which is then polled like any other RSS source.
If so, I can see that this would be as useful as the provision of RSS search results at the site level. Maybe it's actually better to handle this in a centralised way, as Feedster does, though I think there may still be value in having the ability to provide this on a site by site basis.
If the priority is aggregation, a centralised approach absolutely makes sense. If the intention is to provide "custom" RSS feeds which can be subscribed to directly, the local provision of the service looks useful too.
I do think that some kind of search syntax standardisation would be useful. If the major blogging tools agreed on some parameter names and implemented RSS search results, it could have some interesting possibilities. One advantage would be that it would be possible to filter on parameters which are unsupported by any particular flavour of syndication format - i.e. the searched for data doesn't need to be in the RSS output content at all, it just needs to be searchable on the site source database.
Another benefit could be the resolution of the issues relating to RSS discovery, with a single standard URL plus parameters being sufficient to provide all requested formats/versions on demand.
Julius
>From: "J. Scott Johnson" <scott@...>
>Reply-To: rss-user@yahoogroups.com
>To: rss-user@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [rss-user] RSS formatted search results
>Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:17:57 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Hm...
>
>Clearly I'm biased here since Feedster has been providing search results via RSS
>for > 1 year but this is interesting. Are you suggesting that other systems
>standardize on the same search syntax:
>
> >>http://www.zopezen.org/search?portal_type%3Alist=Source%20Code&sort_on=created&sort_order=reverse
>
>I can agree that there's utility on the search params being the same. Although I
>think that Zope should have modeled more after Google (heck even we did).
>
>Scott, VP Engineering, www.Feedster.com
>
> > I'm currently looking at Plone/Zope as a possible content management
> > system for a project. I came across this interesting post on ZopeZen:
> >
> > http://www.zopezen.org/Members/andy/news_item.2004-08-06.1348974096
> >
> > Apparently Plone 2 exposes all search results as RSS.
> >
> > This means that I can subscribe to an RSS feed which is tailored to my
> > wishes. I could, for example set up an RSS subscription which only
> > changes when posts containing a specific word or phase is added to the
> > site. A suitably set up Plone site would also allow me to specify
> > other metadata, such as content type (image, audio file etc.).
> >
> > Using the (very long!) example search feed URL on the page referred to
> > above, I have subscribed to a feed from the ZopeZen site showing only
> > items which contain the word London, simply by adding this to the
> > SearchableText parameter in the URL.
> >
> > Another benefit is that it would provide a standard format for search
> > results, making search aggregators easier to produce, and also make it
> > easy to add search functions to existing RSS aggregators.
> >
> > This may well be more widespread than I'm aware of, but it looks like
> > a really fruitful approach.
> >
> >
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> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>J. Scott Johnson
>VP Engineering, www.Feedster.com
>http://scott.feedster.com/
>Have you claimed your feed today?
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