Google News RSS

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

Well I finally got the Cease and Desist email from Google for scraping 
Google news and then posting the results on a web site. So I guess I'll 
have to take those feeds down and convert them to use Yahoo! News 
search.

I figure that using Gnews2rss[1] to feed into a personal aggregator is 
not going to worry them too much. The problem seems to be posting the 
results to a public website. If you do use gnews2rss, please host it 
yourself.

I shouldn't really complain as I'm fairly clearly breaking their terms. 
However, I'm getting increasingly fed up that they don't have an XML 
(RSS or Atom) output from their search results. It's also become pretty 
disappointing that their SOAP API still only covers the main search 
engine and hasn't been extended to support the other parts of Google.

So can I recommend an email writing campaign to ask for RSS/Atom from 
the Search functions. news-feedback@google.com The odd high profile blog 
might not go amiss either.

rgds
JB

Here's the form email:-
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Dear Webmaster,

We recently became aware that your site offers a Google News feed to the 
public.

We appreciate your interest in Google News, but we do not currently 
permit the creation of a news feed from the results on Google News, nor 
do we permit webmasters to display Google News headlines on their sites. 
We provide a means for monitoring Google News searches through Google 
News Alerts at: http://www.google.com/newsalerts and encourage you to 
use this service instead.

For more information about acceptable uses of Google News, please see 
our Terms of Use at 
http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/terms_google_news.html .

If you'd like to incorporate Google News search results into your site, 
we ask that you do so by creating a link to the Google News main page or 
Google News search results. Please feel free to use any of our Google 
logos found at http://www.google.com/stickers.html .

As always, your feedback and comments are very important to us. Please 
let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,
The Google Team
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[1] http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php
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