RSS feeds for GblogSearch and GvideoSearch queries?

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CleverClogs

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Sep 13, 2006, 5:10:11 PM9/13/06
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Could I playfully mention this keyword and see if makes a bell ring
with you: RSS RSS RSS (Oops, it just got repeated several times,
don't know why). It would be so totally awesome, so incredibly cool,
if I could offer a nifty, hyperlinked, orange, miniature icon next to
the search results. This way people could subscribe to particular
keywords from my blog. Because Google's regular BlogSearch and
VideoSearch already provides this functionality (just add &output=rss
to the url) , it shouldn't be that difficult to implement, would it?
I haven't found any other request for this on the forums, but as I
eat, sleep and dream in RSS, it makes perfect sense to me.... (I hope
you're smiling between the lines).

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks so much.


Marjolein Hoekstra

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Sep 14, 2006, 2:43:00 AM9/14/06
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I don't understand how this is related to the ajax search api. If you
want an RSS feed from Google Video or from Google Blog Search, both of
those systems already expose RSS feeds and you are absolutely free to
use those feeds. For blog search and video search, implementing the
orange icon is trivial. If you have the search term in hand, then
computing the associated feed url is a simple matter of taking the
blog/video RSS feed base and then appending an &q= parameter.

For all of the other searches (web, local, etc.) equivalent RSS feeds
do not exist.

The AJAX Search API "feeds" are not RSS/XML based result streams.
Instead, they are encoded as JSON streams. We can certainly consider
exposing these streams, BUT they are not RSS/XML. They are designed for
extreme ease of consumption in a JavaScript environment. Something that
is not true for typical RSS/XML feeds.

Randy Charles Morin

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Sep 14, 2006, 11:28:53 AM9/14/06
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The X in AJAX stands for XML, not JSON. The AJAX technique is
specifically designed for extreme ease of consumption of XML in a
JavaScript environment. That's the whole point of AJAX. Saying
otherwise, seems a little weird.
Thanks,

Randy Charels Morin
http://www.kbcafe.com/rss

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