MSN Search RSS Feeds

Summary: Tell MSN Search what to do with their RSS Search Results

Author

In the RSS search result, put the site name in the dc:creator tag - Maurits

Jobs

On http://careers.msn.com allow the option to save a search result as an RSS feed - Maurits

Advertising

How to make money on RSS feeds? Wrong way: insert sponsored links into the feed - this will just upset your consumers. Right way: add an interstitial page to the click-through on the results, N% of the time. For example, I'm interested in widgets in Australia. After experimenting on the normal web search, I get a search phrase I like. I save it as an RSS feed and add it to my newsreader. After a while, my newsreader alerts me to (say) six new pages that match my search. I click on three of them. When I click on the second one (say), instead of going directly to the result, I go to a "RSS search brought to you by (advertiser...)" splash page. Maybe this is the same person that bought the sponsored link on searches for "widgets"? This has a small "continue" link at the bottom that I can use to skip the ad.

* No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Each one individually typed. - Floopy

* I'd prefer ads in the RSS feed, honestly. It really depends what you're using it for. I can skip past the ads (prefixed with "ADS" or similar) in the RSS feed FAR more easily then I can switch past the ad bypass. - Michael Griffiths

Started thread http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=35668 to discuss this ad issue - Maurits

Top Ten Search Feed

Weekly RSS item with the top 10 most searched items. So we can follow the hype. -- ZippyV

MSN Spaces integration

Allow MSN Spaces users to add RSS feeds of their favorite searches to their blog homepage. Similar to Yahoo's "Add to My Yahoo"... - Maurits

Performance

Humans get antsy if they have to wait more than about three seconds for their search results. RSS Readers, though, being robots, can probably be put off for fifteen to twenty seconds without getting upset. So RSS searches can presumably be soft-pedaled, saving resources for those finicky humans. - Maurits

Exchange Public Folder integration

Allow an Exchange Administrator to attach an RSS feed to a public folder. Have one of the Exchange services (or a new service) follow the feed and add new items as posts, as they occur. - Maurits

Music

Have an RSS input to Windows Media Player. Point WMP to any feed containing links to online media, and have WMP extract the links as a playlist.
Have music.msn.com produce RSS feed-versions of the online catalog samples. Put a "buy now" link in Windows Media player to buy the full version of the currently-playing sample.
Have a "Media" tab to the search (in addition to Web, News, etc.) that preconditions on
(user search) AND (content-type in: wmv or mp3 or ...) or in some other way ensures that feed results have playable media.
- Maurits

Images

Being able to get the result of an image search as a photofeed i.e. an RSS with image enclosures. Or is that difficult, since MSN seems to license its technology from Picsearch?
Peter Forret

Feedreader

Create a top-class feedreader and generate html code for integrating it into a site. Have an online version too. What's available now from other vendors is not too professional... Lucky Balaraman

CRM

Add wiki to crm package and let users add by cc: to the wiki page like jotspot, or IM, or text msg, add options for multiple rss to the wiki page w/filters and authentication, & add keyword alerts (phone/page) - UpRising

RSS Format

"Fix" the RSS ;-) Currently the RSS doesn't generate a <pubDate> tag for the <channel>. I realize that this isn't a required field per the specification (RSS Spec)#requiredChannelElements, but Bloglines (and, I suspect, other readers) use this field to display changes to the contents of the feed. This feature is invaluable if I want to subscribe to the results of a search. -- KinRowan