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can save to your computer and then import into your feed reader. But the
same warning applies: import these but look them over quickly before you
integrate them into your monitoring routine. You'll save yourself a lot of
time in the long run by taking a few minutes now.
Breaking up your searches
Kebberfegg makes it really easy to generate keyword-based feeds: if you
run three searches generating feeds from all categories, you've generated
100 feeds! Because of the very diferent sources from which you're gener-
ating RSS feeds, you may want to break up your searches. For the tag site
searches, you may want to get more general, since you're searching only
keywords. In fact, you may want to generate your keyword-based RSS feeds
for tag sites separately from the other available keyword-based feeds, since
you won't feel the need to compromise between the narrow feeds made for
news search engines, general search engines, and blog search, and the gen-
eral feeds for tags and other few-keyword searches.
Kebberfegg can generate a lot of feeds for you, and save you a lot of time,
but you've got to remember the rules: generate queries that are as narrow as
possible considering what you're searching, and make sure you review the
feeds before you dump them all into your feed reader.
A Few More Sources?
So far we've looked at trapping on general search engines, news search
engines, and blog search engines, and we've taken a look at a tool that allows
you to generate several keyword-based feeds at one time. It's good to have
Web search engines in reserve to ilter for and ind the minutiae on your
topics of interest. News search engines will keep you updated on recent hap-
penings, and the blog search engines will point you toward commentary
and that under-the-media-radar material.
Yet you've barely scratched the surface. If you use these three types of
searches as the foundation of your trapping, you'll be of to a good start.
But if you use them to the exclusion of anything else, you'll have a problem.
here are many more types of search engines that could be monitored, but
in this chapter we look at two more: commercial and governmental. We
then look at inding other search engines that match your interests.