If you use MSN for research, you can now get and use RSS feeds.

See below.

http://search.msn.com:80/results.aspx?q="kurt melvin"&format=rss&FORM=R0RE

If u use something like ZZ tuelz you can have it automatically gather and archive this data for you.

Kelvin

You have been able to get msn rss pheeds for quite some time. Recently they changed the format a little and are promoting the feeds that look like the one you posted.

http://search.msn.com:80/results.aspx?q="kurt melvin"&format=rss&FORM=R0RE

I prefer the older version which looks like the following and is a little cleaner:

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=kurt melvin&format=rss&FORM=RSRE

I suppose one day they could discontinue it, but for now...

Actually I just manually cleaned yours. There is no reason for the % signs. Now your example looks like this:
http://search.msn.com:80/results.aspx?q=kurt melvin&format=rss&FORM=R0RE

Which is more similar to my example but does include :80, and end with RORE instead of RSRE.

Take out the :80 and it still works and is shorter

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=kurt melvin&format=rss&FORM=R0RE

You can even shorten it to this, which still works and which I like best of all:

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=kurt melvin&format=rss

Castle

I have known about it for a while.

I went to look for it to add a feed to a page, for a specific search and noticed that at least at the time it was no longer advertised on the search results page.

So, I had to look for it. Though others may like to know.

Also, length is no matter, at least at the moment, because I am just pullin in the feed.

I would like to see the feature on google, or yahoo.

kelvin

I wasn't trying to make you feel bad, just trying to clean up the feed. I prefer shorter because wrongly or rightly I think there is less to go wrong.

You probably know this: yahoo does have a feed:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=paris&eo=UTF-8

Keyword is Paris, replace that with whatever you want, plus the feed needs to be scrubbed because it has redirects in it
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/paris/SIG=12fmdu3j8/*http%
See the rd.yahoo above. Kurt mentioned that before, hence the need for Scrubz.

Likewise google does have feeds too. I am not going to give you my method of accessing them, but they exist.

Castle

No worries.

Our different ways of looking at things are bound to help someone else.

Yes, I know about google and yahoo.

The reason I singled out MSN was because it showed the rss for regular search results rather than news.

kelvin
www.21freetips.com

Thanks Kelvin and Castle...

I just wanted to make a quick comment about the Yahoo (and Google) redirects....

Coincidently I just got back an upgrade to Newz Tuel that will "scrub"/remove the redirects in Newz Tuel so that the URLs "should" be clean, without any reidrect URLs that act as major fingerprints.

I say "should" because I haven't had a chance to test it yet.