You can use Google News search and Google Blog search to keep track of the latest news and relevant blog posts through RSS feeds of the search. This is a very simple way to create your own news feed of information from reputed news sources and also the blogosphere.
For example, let’s say you want to keep abreast on any developments with Presidential candidate Barack Obama in the blogosphere, then you could type in “Barack Obama” and either setup Blog Alerts or choose to subscribe to the RSS or Atom feed for that search.
Click on RSS at the bottom left and your search is now your own personalized feed! Click Subscribe to this feed if you’re using IE 7 and that’s it. By default, Google Blog search orders the posts from the newest to the oldest, but you can also pick the time frame for the posts and then subscribe to the feed. That way, if you only want to read posts written within the last 12 hours, just choose that option and then click on RSS.
This customized blog feed can also be very useful for getting blog ideas for your own blog. Let’s say you have a blog that’s all about Yahoo Messenger, search for that keyword along with some other keywords that you might want to write about in your next post and you might find something useful every once in a while!
For example, I search “Yahoo Messenger Cannot” and found a couple of posts about people who cannot login to Yahoo Messenger or that Yahoo cannot be attacked through the registry, etc. These could prove to be useful posts for your own blog later on.
You can also subscribe to Google News searches in the same manner. Perform a search in Google News and on the left hand side you will see an option for RSS, along with the same options for the time frame you are interested in. If you scroll all the way to the bottom, you can add your customized feed to your Google homepage or to Google Reader:
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