Finally, Google has launched the much awaited RSS feeds, as an option to Google Alerts. Lately, Google Operating System discovered it.

“Google Alerts has a new option: you can now subscribe to feeds instead of receiving periodic email messages. Google Alerts notifies you if there are new pages in the list of top results for a certain query. You can subscribe to alerts for web search, Google News, blog search, Google Groups and Google Video.”
The new feature from Google Alerts is useful, but Google should’ve provided an option to subscribe to feeds for each search result. Right now, the feeds from Google Alerts have cryptic addresses like:
http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/LONG_NUMBER/ANOTHER_LONG_NUMBER
and you can only generate feeds from Google Alerts. – Google Operating System
You just need to login and then click on manage your Google Alerts. After that, you can set up your new alerts and also modify the existing ones.

Forum discussions have been going on at WebmasterWorldand Sphinn.

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