Google has confirmed for Search Engine Land that they’ll soon start offering RSS feeds for web search results. When it happens, the RSS feeds will be an extension of Google Alerts, which currently only allow notification by email.
The addition of RSS alerts was first picked up by Amit Agarwal, who found it mentioned in an October 1st Wall Street Journal article where author Katherine Boehret wrote, “In about a month, Google will begin delivering these alerts to users via feeds, as well as emails.”
Not quite…
I’ve been using an RSS feed from a Google search for several months now. I don’t remember how I set it up, but it’s been quite happily sending me RSS feeds for quite some time, now!
yeah, I thought they already did that
I remember having a feed on something for about a week… but maybe not, if they say it’s new… maybe I used a third-party feed-maker-thingy at feedmakerthingy.com (not)
RSS Feed Web Service
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.