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Roll Your Own Yahoo! News RSS Feeds

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 8, 2003 @02:23AM from the smooshing-things-together dept.

An anonymous reader submits "O'Reilly Developer News is reporting that one of Yahoo's employee's has hacked together a way roll your own Yahoo! News rss feed. Jeremy Zawodney, said hacker, is also an editor of Linux Magazine. News search over RSS is a feature Googlites have been pining for. It's interesting that Yahoo has, in a round about way, beat them to the punch on this one."

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Re:Buggy by phlyingpenguin · 2003-10-08 03:23 · Score: 2, Insightful

Though I just did it again and it's working right with "sco linux" - and several of his examples are multiword. Still, it isn't very reliable, I get quite a few 404s (as the comments in his blog suggest)