Posts Tagged ‘rss-search’

Are you using RSS for competitive intelligence?

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

As you’re learning from this blog, RSS is a great way to market your business (no spam filter problems, users opt-in by default), but have you tried using RSS to give you a real edge in your business?
No?  It’s simple.  Use Technorati (a blog search engine), Feedster (blog search engine), PubSub (blog search engine), IceRocket [...]

Octora RSS Search

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Octora is a beta RSS search engine.  You can input a keyword (tag) and the search engine will find all relevant RSS feeds for the keyword.
Try Octora at octora.com.

Using RSS for Ego Searches

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Knowing who’s linking to you can be a great way to determine how effective your blogging (for your business) has become. Watching your links grow incrementally is encouraging, and can assist you in knowing what your audience wants and what you need to write on to please them.
The way I keep up with who [...]

Segmented Search

Friday, April 21st, 2006

I’ve been frustrated with this more than once (read daily) and I really couldn’t put a finger on what it was that really made searching the wealth of information in the blogosphere so difficult.  Steve Rubel has done a good, if pithy, job of explaining the segmented search problem:
Now how do you search the social [...]

Discounting Search Can Be Deadly

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Logically we can agree that search marketing and organic search placement is very important, but how much does it really impact your business?
Does your company really need to pay attention to your brand’s reputation in search results? Is it that important? Well, given that 400 million searches are conducted in Google alone everyday, you might [...]

Market Rumors Abound In The Blogosphere

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

With juicy rumors out there like Apple to Buy Palm and Atom to Buy RSS, it’s only a matter of time until your company makes the blogosphere headlines.
To stay current on these happenings, you can easily subscribe to the search feed on your company’s name.

Go to Google (or Yahoo! News) and do a [...]

Feedster Feels The Wrath of the Blogosphere

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! complained of Feedster’s poor performance on his blog yesterday. 
Is it just me, or has Feedster been completely useless for over 6 months now? I have no idea if it’s related to the recent departure of Scott Rafer (former CEO) and Scott Johnson (former co-founder), but I’m amazed at how bad it [...]

Build your own RSS search tools

Monday, September 12th, 2005

RSS search tools aren’t as efficient as Web search tools.
Chris Sherman’s article "RSS Search Engines" explains:
Although there are literally millions of feeds available, finding those that are appealing and relevant to you isn’t always easy. The major search engines are all dabbling with feed search, but none offer a robust service as yet. And [...]