Re: [syndication] Google and newsblaster

[Mike Krus <mkrus@newsisfree.com>]

Hi,

Julian Bond wrote:
> Mentioned on Scripting News.
> http://radio.weblogs.com/0104308/RssDistillerChannels/
>
> RSS versions of Google News and Columbia Newsblaster. Some questions:-
>
> - Shouldn't this be produced by the source? Surely both Google and
> Newsblaster could do it themselves.
most sites could, few actually do ;-)

Also, Google added rules in robots.txt to exclude robots, I would
think that applies to scrapers.

> - What tech was used to produce them?
RssDistiller for Radio I'd say. It's a scraping tool, like Stappler.


Mike

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