Google's latest feature enables you to receive Google News results as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or Atom feeds in your feed reader. With the RSS and Atom feeds, you can now view headlines from Google News as well as other news Web sites you're interested in, in one location, making it easier to keep up on breaking news from multiple sources.

Atom is a format quite similar to RSS. It was created by people who felt that RSS could be improved upon, and some that disagreed with some of the politics regarding RSS. The basic difference is that while Atom is somewhat more complex (for producers of Atom feeds), it is also able to carry more complex information, and it is consistent across the syndication, storage, and editing of information.

If you visit any English language Google News page will should now see RSS and Atom links. When you have a feed reader installed, clicking on either of these links will generate a feed of current stories related to the page you're looking at. Google News feeds are similar to Google Alerts, whereby you receive headlines and teasers with a link to click through directly to the news source to read the full story.

There are a number of ways you can access the new feeds. You can find a feed by clicking on a feed link while you're on a specific Google News page, get a feed for any search by clicking on the Atom or RSS link on the left-hand side of a search results page and pasting the resulting URL into your feed reader, create a feed of a customised news page by creating a customised news page, or add a Google News feed to your Google personalised home page. There really is no need to be out of touch.

Google is not planning to extend the content syndication feature to Google News editions in other languages. Google already has 22 localiced editions of Google News in nine different languages.

On a similar note, BIOS has had RSS feeds available on its site for over six months.

BIOS, Aug 10, 05 | Print | Send | Comments (0) | Posted In Internet