Forum Moderators: open
I would like to have keyword specific news. So if I choose 'George Bush', all links to news about him must appear on that page as the news is generated.
Is there any way of doing this with Google. I would like a way acceptable to Google as I don't want to do anything that would penalize my site.
If Google doesn't have this, then maybe it would be a good idea to introduce a feature of this sort.
Thanks!
dont think Google are doing this yet.
Moreover are good, however newsnow.co.uk are even better.
Shak
I would love to use them, but have held off as i am unsure of what view Google would take of these as the links go direct to the sources, thereby using Google resources with very limited branding. Also the whole product is still beta so i expect the scraping scripts will "break" any time.
That said, it would be easy for Google to incorporate news.google.com into their "site search" boxes which you can already use on your own site, should they deem it useful and when the service is out of beta i guess. But thats not quite the same as being able to display actual items on your web site dynamically!
Moreover do have limitations - basically they say their feeds cannot be used on comemrcial sites last time i looked. And in many categories companies can pay to get their press releases included from what i see. Plus news sources pay to get included, therefore you miss a lot of the non-commercial, non-mainstream news that G! news picks up.
You can also convert any daypop keyword query into rss and use on your page by changing the url to add something like =rss. Daypop provides both rss news and blog updates. There are also a few commercial services that will do this for you.
I think Moreover keep the "free" service for non-commercial sites fairly low key in their site as exposure is less important to them now but revenue is!
Last time I looked about 6 months ago, digging around in the site unearthed it as well as a lot of instructions on how to do it.
As i said before the qulity of their feeds has declined, and all links go through moreover, so to spiders you will end up with a lot of external links to moreover. If i was a search engine, I would probably downgrade such sites as they are likely to have duplicate content, though it certainly changes a lot. - Unless you get into clever niched keyword based search feeds, all the categories deliver the same headlines, on thousands of sites simultaneously. Maybe using the Javascript format rather than rss or xml options will solve that problem.
[daypop.com...]
(This is a Weblog search; you can also do a news search.)
Now, once you have the feed you'll need to integrate it into your site. I understand that this is easy if you are running a PHP system, but I don't know anything about that. If you're running something else and you're comfortable installing a program on your server, I really like Ben Brown's RSS Monkey:
[brandbenbrown.com...]
If you don't want to go through all that, there's News4Sites, which looks rather Moreoveresque.
[news4sites.com...] .
