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I hear you out there saying, “So what?” Okay, let's look at an example: You're
interested in molybdenum mining. You might be able to ind RSS feeds
about mining, minerals, elements, or chemistry, but I'm pretty sure there's
no Molybdenum Mining Gazette out there. But you could search Yahoo
News for molybdenum mining , sort your results by date, and generate a con-
stantly updated RSS feed of molybdenum mining news.
here might not be much news about such a topic, and that's the entire
point. Instead of having to go through more general, very active feeds that
change several times a month or possibly several times a day, you'd be read-
ing a feed that might change only a couple times a month. hat would be
okay, however, because it would be bringing very speciic, very focused
news to you—the exact news you want.
In later chapters, as we dive further into RSS feeds and where they can be
found, we'll get up close and personal with keyword-based RSS feeds. For
now, let's return to a resource we discussed earlier in the chapter to get a
better sense of how this type of feed can help you.
Remember Feedster? Feedster locates static RSS feeds. But it's also a source
of keyword-based RSS feeds. Say you're a customer-service executive with
Pizza Hut, and you want to know what people are saying about Pizza Hut
stores. You visit Feedster, and ater some experimentation, you settle on the
search phrase “pizza hut” “thin crust” . Your search results may look like
Figure 2.14 .
Unless one of the blogs you ind is called “My Diary of Going to Pizza Hut
Every Day,” you're probably not going to want to monitor each of these
blogs. Instead, you can get an RSS feed of Feedster's results: a keyword-
based RSS feed that refreshes every time Feedster inds a new entry in its
index that matches “pizza hut” “thin crust” . (Look for the “Subscribe to
this search” link at the top of the results page.) Feedster is monitoring the
part of the blogging world that goes to Pizza Hut so you don't have to!
 
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