How to create the Super Ego Search RSS Feed for yourself

Use Yahoo Pipes, of course.

The nice thing about Pipes, is that you can "massage" the data you recieve to get it just how you like it. for me that means:

  • gather the search feed on many terms from many different sources
  • Sort by date
  • remove redundant posts about the same post (unique by link)
  • remove the posts that are from my own blog (filter by link)

so that's what I did right here. you can have pipes create an RSS feed for that, and then wrap that up with FeedBurner for easy access at all times. For me that is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Osherove

Published Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:47 PM by RoyOsherove

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Sunday, November 18, 2007 5:42 AM by Robbie Clutton

# re: How to create the Super Ego Search RSS Feed for yourself

Hey Roy,

this is cool and all, but couldn't you just as easily use something like Google Alerts to trigger on keywords and links?  

I suppose with something like this you would retain more control over the sources and also Google Alerts sends emails.  It'd be nice if it could expose that service as a feed.

Robbie

Sunday, November 18, 2007 6:03 AM by RoyOsherove

# re: How to create the Super Ego Search RSS Feed for yourself

With google alerts I'd still get alerts from my own blog, as well as dupicates. plus, google is great but having a view from multiple searchers will most likely find you stuff that google hasn't indexed.

Also, with pipes I also added my own little text in the beginning of each "find" that details the link it leads to very easily.

It was already part of the feed, but it was hidden under a "source" link, which I had to hover over to see who linked to me.

I love the control I got that allows me to actually add more meta data and text to each post so I ca get better information.

Thursday, November 22, 2007 3:15 AM by Robbie

# re: How to create the Super Ego Search RSS Feed for yourself

That's cool, I can definitely see the bit of value add you're getting by doing this.  I was thinking of doing something similar for my life stream.  One feed if you were interested in myself, i.e. flickr, dopplr, blog etc.

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