 One of my immediate go-to sites each day is Google News and I always keep it open in a Firefox tab, letting it manually update itself every 15 minutes or so. But being an information junkie and a researcher (hence my nickname, "Mr Google"), there are specific news topics that I like to constantly keep tabs on and it would normally take up so much time in my day to manually check out each search term in Google News. Hence Google News's RSS feed capability is an absolute lifesaver and it is a cinch to set up. Basically first enter the search term in Google News. For this example, I am using "Putin" (as I do a lot of research on Russia and Russian politics) :
Then you will get the search results up :
Then look to the left of the screen and you will see this :
Clicking on RSS or Atom will then generate the RSS feed for the news search term "Putin" and all future news articles with Putin in them will now appear in my RSS reader (which is the excellent Google Reader). No more trolling round Google News for stories - now they get delivered to me via RSS. You wouldn't believe how much time in my day this has freed up.Labels: google, news, productivity, RSS |
