Feedster Starts Offering a News Search, WordPress Search

Feedster has gotten into a bunch of new things, including a podcast search. Now they're offering a new news search as well as a way to search just WordPress blogs.

The news search is available at http://news.feedster.com/. It looks very much like the regular Feedster search, with a simple keyword search and a limited advanced search. Results can be listed by relevance or date.

Most of the results looked like actual news stories (there was an advertisement for the "Fox 50 Cash Cow" that showed up on my list of results) though there didn't seem to be a huge variety of sources in the searches I ran. (Most of them came from news aggregator Topix, which might explain that.)

One thing that excited me about the idea of a Feedster news search was the fact that it would offer caches. Well, it does, but they're not particularly useful. Feedster indexes RSS feeds, I must remember -- and in this case most of the RSS feeds are only snippets of articles. So that tells me two things -- first that the cache feature isn't going to do me a lot of good and second that I won't be able to do deeply-specific searches, since Feedster is only indexing parts of articles.

The WordPress-only search is at http://wordpress.feedster.com/. Like you'd guess, it'll search only those feeds that are from WordPress blogs. I'm not really sure why you'd want to do this -- maybe to compare the differences in search results, maybe to narrow down your search results when you can't think of any other way to do it (it certainly does that). I didn't see much in the line of spaham when I experimented with this search either.

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