John Beynon

Confessions of a code Junkie and anything else i fancy!

Google about to offer RSS results of search?

At the moment when you do a search you get results formatted by Google, Google does have the Google Custom Search Engine product which allows you to restrict results to certain sites and the ability to (partly) customise how the results look but if you don’t want ads displayed you have to pay anything from $100 per year (depending on search volume).

A post here suggests that Google might be about to offer RSS feeds of search results. This will be great news – we should now be able to (license permitting) format the results to look just like our own sites so the fact the results are coming from Google is almost transparent – I imagine there’s going to be some restrictions and ‘powered by google’ logos required etc but on the whole this could be big – particularly if you want to get results into something other than a webpage! eg for those vanity Google searches of your own name straight into your RSS reader! :)

 

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  1. Here is a web service that provides RSS results for Google Search

    http://www.ecubicle.net/gsearch_rss.asmx

    Since the returned XML is RSS 2.0 compliant, the web service can also be called in a feed reader like this:

    http://www.ecubicle.net/gsearch_rss.asmx/GetSearchResults?searchPage=0&gQuery=tutorial+asp+net&numOfResults=15

    You need to change the searchPage, gQuery and numOfResults querystring parameters to your choice. gQuery parameter accepts all standard Google Search Operators.

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