Comments on: Beat the RSS Out of Any Web Page with FeedBeater

By: Gudri RSS mašina : nežinau.lt

Gudri RSS mašina : nežinau.lt — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:45:31 +0000

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By: AgentOrange

AgentOrange — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:54:34 +0000

The page ranking system of Google (which can be gamed by buying links) makes it unreliable. They need to come up with better algorithms other than page ranking. The fact that page ranks changes takes place more often makes me feel a bit better about it. New content are produced every minute and they are quite fast at indexing those pages, faster than most search engines. Maybe the first page of search results is not that reliable but Google is still the best search engine there is. I’m looking forward to the official launch of Powerset (The recently acquired natural language search engine by Microsoft).

P.S.: I knew that you’d make the connection when I saw my arrival at your blog on your Feedjit widget.

By: WebbieGurl

WebbieGurl — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:18:48 +0000

I have to admit yahoo sucks but i have to say i never trust google results as well… i mean, i use a library when i want to have reliable source for anything.. that is an online library but sad to say a fee is a must f information is to be reliable too.

I seee, i asked if you’re a Kababayan coz I saw the flag when you returned to my site after i commented here. ^^

By: AgentOrange

AgentOrange — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:15:50 +0000

I don’t know what Yahoo is up to and to be frank, they really suck at the Search engine business but they do have some quality web apps and services that are worth it. Yes I am kababayan hehe! ;D

By: WebbieGurl

WebbieGurl — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:08:23 +0000

Indeed! Competetion, as Karl Marx have noted is an invisible hand helping the consumers… well, we are these consumers now… and it is just good to be that way.

I would be more happy also if yahoo would get back stronger and better competitions would exist in search engines. I hate domination and lack of proper competition.

Kababayan ka ba?

By: AgentOrange

AgentOrange — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:42:20 +0000

@Talen: I tried it on sites that does not have RSS and it produced an RSS link for me to follow. To tell you the truth, I did not get the chance to wait for that site to update but I’m pretty sure that it will work just fine.

@WebbieGurl: Competition among web services or any product for that matter is always great for consumers like us. It may not always be great for them but it will definitely keep them on the edge of development which is also good for both parties.

By: WebbieGurl

WebbieGurl — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:48:13 +0000

This is a good news for me.. Not because I want to use it right away but competetion will surely improve the service… ^^

By: Talen

Talen — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:14:21 +0000

This is great. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. There are a few sites out there that contain news I want to import but they don’t have RSS set up and it seems like this will do the trick…thanks.

By: AgentOrange

AgentOrange — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:05:41 +0000

@SlamBlogger: Yes you are correct. That would be one of the many uses of this tool.

By: SlamBlogger

SlamBlogger — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:42:14 +0000

If I understand correctly, this would be great for specific category pages, if you’re only interested in one topic that the site covers.