Is there a way of getting feeds like RSS feeds but on keywords?

JennyP

This must surely exist as it would be useful!

Say I am interested in a particular topic e.g. sausages. (That's just an example. I'm veggie in reality!)

If I wanted to know whenever sausages were mentioned in the national press or on the BBC website - in other words on major websites - so I could find the articles online in time to comment, is there a way of getting notification of that?

What I'm constantly finding is that when I search for the things I'm interested in, I find the articles but the comments section is already closed so I'm not able to participate in the discussion.

There must surely be a better way of doing it..... I don't have time to manually trawl every newspaper site every day!

mr_fishbulb

Check out Google Alerts - http://www.google.com/alerts

You can have an email for each new with Google indexes, or a RSS feed. Make sure your search terms are quite specific otherwise you'll end up being flooded.

You can use site: function on Google search to specify pages from a particular site, e.g. site:bbc.co.uk

Hoseman

Google Alerts is a good option as suggested as you can choose email alerts or rss feeds for the results.. If you are searching for a phrase use speechmarks like "cumberland sausages" so that you only get back relevant results. For more ways to narrow down your results check this page:

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861&rd=1

JennyP

Thank you. Didn't know those things existed! Exactly what I'm looking for.

mr_fishbulb

I've got one set up on my name as it's not very common. Although through Google alerts I found out I share it with a wife-beater