Search Engine Watch says that Google Base gets RSS’d

July 22, 2006 By

Hmm, I hadn’t noticed this either, but search-engine authority Barry Schwartz, over on the authoritative Search Engine Watch, points out RSS feed icons on Google Base. They are RSS 2.0 feeds, too. That little RSS thing? It’s going places! Or bases. All your RSS base belong to us. OK, I need some sleep. Enjoy the feeds!

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  • http://cleverhack.com/ joy

    With Google Base adding RSS feeds, I’m surprised that RSS isn’t being used more in online retailing.

    The only substantial use of RSS so far has been for feed files for online shopping engines.

    Yeah, ebay allows one to create feeds for searches and Amazon has feeds for their categories, but really, how are they being used?

  • http://cleverhack.com joy

    With Google Base adding RSS feeds, I’m surprised that RSS isn’t being used more in online retailing.

    The only substantial use of RSS so far has been for feed files for online shopping engines.

    Yeah, ebay allows one to create feeds for searches and Amazon has feeds for their categories, but really, how are they being used?

  • Karim

    Well for the iTunes Music Store, there are a bunch of RSS feeds: Top 10 Songs, Top 25 New Releases, etc. It’s kind of like what your local brick-and-mortar music store does when they put all the new CDs on a display in the front of the store…

    Even better, they have an RSS Feed Generator:

    http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/MRSS/rssGenerator

    So if you don’t care anything about popular music, but you DO care about the latest Easy Listening, German Folk Music, and Audiobook releases, you can create an RSS feed tailored just for you.

    My local brick-and-mortar music store almost never has German Folk Music on their New Releases display. :-)

    Eventually it will end up like the personalized advertising in Minority Report. :-)

  • Karim

    Well for the iTunes Music Store, there are a bunch of RSS feeds: Top 10 Songs, Top 25 New Releases, etc. It’s kind of like what your local brick-and-mortar music store does when they put all the new CDs on a display in the front of the store…

    Even better, they have an RSS Feed Generator:

    http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/MRSS/rssGenerator

    So if you don’t care anything about popular music, but you DO care about the latest Easy Listening, German Folk Music, and Audiobook releases, you can create an RSS feed tailored just for you.

    My local brick-and-mortar music store almost never has German Folk Music on their New Releases display. :-)

    Eventually it will end up like the personalized advertising in Minority Report. :-)

  • http://internetnewsdaily.wordpress.com/ internetnewsdaily

    There are quite a bit fo RSS feeds being generated by those in the know in the SEO and SEM field. We use them all the time to drive traffic and qualied leads to customers.

    Timothy Graf
    http://internetnewsdaily.wordpress.com/
    http://www.grafweb.com
    http://www.grafwebnetworks.com

  • http://internetnewsdaily.wordpress.com/ internetnewsdaily

    There are quite a bit fo RSS feeds being generated by those in the know in the SEO and SEM field. We use them all the time to drive traffic and qualied leads to customers.

    Timothy Graf
    http://internetnewsdaily.wordpress.com/
    http://www.grafweb.com
    http://www.grafwebnetworks.com

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  • http://blogmatrix.semantic.blogmatrix.com/ David

    Alas, there’s an unfortunately element of unidirectionality of data flow here. You can load data in a fairly reasonable fashion _into_ Google Base using RSS feeds. However, the feed that Google Base is _exporting_ doesn’t provide this data. I’ve recently written a series of articles why this would be a good idea here http://blogmatrix.semantic.blogmatrix.com/google%20base.

  • http://blogmatrix.semantic.blogmatrix.com David

    Alas, there’s an unfortunately element of unidirectionality of data flow here. You can load data in a fairly reasonable fashion _into_ Google Base using RSS feeds. However, the feed that Google Base is _exporting_ doesn’t provide this data. I’ve recently written a series of articles why this would be a good idea here http://blogmatrix.semantic.blogmatrix.com/google%20base.

  • http://blogmatrix.semantic.blogmatrix.com/ David

    Arg, the trailing period got added to the URI … try this:
    http://blogmatrix.semantic.blogmatrix.com/google%20base

  • http://blogmatrix.semantic.blogmatrix.com David

    Arg, the trailing period got added to the URI … try this:
    http://blogmatrix.semantic.blogmatrix.com/google%20base