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At the center of the dispute is Bond’s gnews2rss, a PHP script that takes a Google News search and turns it into an RSS feed. The script allows users to enter search keywords into a field and create an RSS feed that can be used by any news aggregator.Bond told internetnews.com he created the script a year ago to display categorized headlines at Ecademy.com. For instance, a section of the site devoted to wireless networking displays RSS-powered headlines from a variety of blogs (define) and one from Google News with the keywords “Wi-Fi” or “WLAN” or “80211.”
Bond has since removed the Google News headlines and replaced them with those powered by Yahoo (Quote, Chart) but he said it was frustrating that the most popular search engine was not providing an XML (define) output from their search results. “It’s also become pretty disappointing that their SOAP API (define) (define) still only covers the main search engine and hasn’t been extended to support the other parts of Google.”
Link to full article ==> Google Moves to Block RSS Scraping
Thoughts ==> Wouldn’t it be neat if there was a version of RSS that only worked in readers, and on sites came up as garbage, so you could then secure the permissions of others to use your RSS feed on their sites?
