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Google Chrome 3.0: No RSS. Does It Matter?

Google today released a new version of Google Chrome for Windows. (The Mac version is coming later this year, Google promises.) Like its predecessors, this one also fails to support RSS natively in the browser -- which means that, when...

Posted by Ken Varnum on September 15, 2009 2:15 PM

Google Alerts are Now RSS-Enabled

Google has finally made Google Alerts available via RSS. Just as with email alerts, you can enter search terms and select parts of the web to monitor (news, blogs, web, groups, video) or go for the whole shebang with a...

Posted by Ken Varnum on December 4, 2008 9:47 AM

Tentative Settlement in the Google Book Search Lawsuit

The path is now open for millions of books digitized through the Google Book Search project to be available to the public. This includes in-copyright books as well as out-of-print and out-of-copyright books. The tentative agreement announced today would settle...

Posted by Ken Varnum on October 28, 2008 11:46 AM

Google Chrome and RSS

I've just started playing with Google Chrome, Google's new browser. Its strengths are impressive, but I was disappointed to see no support, as yet, for reading RSS feeds. They display as text, with all tags stripped out, and no semblance...

Posted by Ken Varnum on September 4, 2008 9:31 AM

Bloglines Succumbs to Advertising

It was just a matter of time, but Bloglines has added advertisements to their site. When I went to read my feeds this morning, there was an ad for T-Mobile right on the starting page: I've long wondered just where...

Posted by Ken Varnum on August 8, 2008 8:08 AM