Comments on: FaveBot – RSS aggregation unleashed http://thebigdeal.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/favebot-rss-aggregation-unleashed/ Perfection of means and confusion of aims… Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:12:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: tradermike http://thebigdeal.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/favebot-rss-aggregation-unleashed/#comment-105 tradermike Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:02:17 +0000 http://thebigdeal.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/favebot-rss-aggregation-unleashed/#comment-105 Thanks for the feedback and the mention. I'm not sure what you mean by the list of feeds being hard-coded. Are you referring to blogs specifically? If so, I'm using Google Blog Search to find blog posts. So whatever they spider should show up, with the noticeable exception that I had to ban/block some domains because they were full of spam. That list of domains includes blogspot(!!!) and any .info sites . I've been meaning to blog about that, so I guess I'll do it now... Re: getting results(discoveries) for a specific search term (tracking). I guess this is a result of my poor interface design skills (a professional redesign is planned). The method you mentioned is probably the best way to access the results of a single search (tracking). Note that you can also get an RSS feed for each tracking's results. When you're on the entire (mashed together) list you'll see links like this "only XYZ discoveries" at the top of each discovery. That will do the same thing as clicking the number next to search term XYZ on your trackings tab. You can think clicking on the "my discoveries" tab as a river of news view of all your discoveries. I know some people don't like the river of news style of doing things. Those folks may be more comfortable using the "my trackings" list as folders which allow them to drill down into one search term. Thanks for the feedback and the mention. I’m not sure what you mean by the list of feeds being hard-coded. Are you referring to blogs specifically? If so, I’m using Google Blog Search to find blog posts. So whatever they spider should show up, with the noticeable exception that I had to ban/block some domains because they were full of spam. That list of domains includes blogspot(!!!) and any .info sites . I’ve been meaning to blog about that, so I guess I’ll do it now…

Re: getting results(discoveries) for a specific search term (tracking). I guess this is a result of my poor interface design skills (a professional redesign is planned). The method you mentioned is probably the best way to access the results of a single search (tracking). Note that you can also get an RSS feed for each tracking’s results. When you’re on the entire (mashed together) list you’ll see links like this “only XYZ discoveries” at the top of each discovery. That will do the same thing as clicking the number next to search term XYZ on your trackings tab.

You can think clicking on the “my discoveries” tab as a river of news view of all your discoveries. I know some people don’t like the river of news style of doing things. Those folks may be more comfortable using the “my trackings” list as folders which allow them to drill down into one search term.

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