Using RSS Feeds

Posted on January 18th, 2007 in General by Sumanasa.com Team

Switched to RSS feeds (instead of html pages) as source of news headlines for a few news sources for the first time in the 6-year history of Sumanasa.com. Although RSS feeds are more structured source of news headlines, we still prefer crawling HTML pages for the following reasons:

  • Many Indian websites still don’t provide RSS feeds.
  • RSS feeds may not be updated as frequently and as quickly as their HTML counterparts.
  • Headlines in RSS feeds are sometimes sorted on date and time rather than by their importance.
  • Not all headlines are listed in RSS feeds.

Holler back if headlines from your favourite website is still not available on Sumanasa.com.

2 Responses to 'Using RSS Feeds'

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  1. Saket Mehta said,

    on August 9th, 2007 at 11:17 pm

    Hi
    Good job by Sumanasa.com Team.
    Please help me if you can, As you are saying in this post, Many Indian Sites don’t provide RSS feeds … etc.
    How can we solve this problem, as I am also facing same problem. News from our site is not added into google news search etc.

    Regards
    Saket Mehta

  2. Sumanasa.com Team said,

    on August 11th, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    Not sure what your question is…if you want to get listed in google news, you please send a request here:

    http://www.google.com/support/newspub/bin/answer.py?answer=40787