Meta Search Alerts

http://pipes.yahoo.com/seeminglee/metasearchalerts

Purpose

Aggregates search results into a single feed which can be subscribed to in an RSS reader.

Source

Here's a screenshot of the pipe:

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Mechanism

This Yahoo Pipe does the following:

  1. Aggregates these search results simultaneously:
  2. Filters the results and ensures that the links are unique.
  3. Sorts the results by date such that the latest addition onto the pool will appear at the top of the list.

In other words, it acts as an RSS feed alerts for all these search engines.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=nHNB8TJm3BGumlGA9YS63A

Tips

  • To utilize this well, use dashes '-' in place of space ' ' such that the tags will be valid for del.icio.us

Change Log

  • 2007-10-28T00:45-04:00
    • Added DateFormatter to unify date source
  • 2007-10-27T16:21-04:00
    • Added Flickr tags as a source of searches
  • 2007-10-27T16:15-04:00
    • Added Del.icio.us tags as a source of searches
  • 2008-05-29

Meta Search Alerts in action

Here's the pipe in action logging activities scooped from the Web of itself :)

Run Pipe... | Subscribe to feed

  • Competitive Intelligence – PubCon Style - Marketing Pilgrim / With Mark Alerts, it will tell you whenever a domain name uses a particular keyword. Oodle: Andy’s favorite meta search for job listings. Type in company name, filter it down by location or skillset. They have RSS alert so you don’t even have to ... / 1258329240|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Yahoo Pipes: Meta Search Alerts Digest / Since publishing Meta Search Alerts (Yahoo Pipes) ( Flickr screenshot / SML Pro Blog / SML Wiki) back in 2007, it has become to most popular pipe ever created. It even popped onto ReadWriteWeb's The Ultimate Yahoo Pipes List in 2008. And perhaps even more bizarre was discovering that somehow CNet ha ... / 1255101540|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Meta Search Alerts: See-ming Lee / Search results of SML over time! http://pipes.yahoo.com/seeminglee/metasearchalerts ... Created Apr 25, 2008 by seeminglee. Last Modified: 07/17/09 at 09:32 PM ... /
  • Meta Search Alerts / Perfect Desperation 7/7 NC17 Jared/Shannon (letocest) Fifth-generation iPod nano gets a firmware fix - IT World ... .com/~r/metasearchalerts/genius/~3 ... /
  • SML Wiki: SML Wiki / SML Wiki = See-ming Lee + Wiki. I started this site originally to record my ... pipes.yahoo.com/seeminglee/metasearchalerts Purpose Aggregates search results ... /
  • SML Wiki: See-ming Lee / See-ming combines his unique skill sets as both a designer and programmer to ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/metasearchalerts/seeminglee ... /
  • Pipes from See-ming Lee (SML) / FriendFeed http://friendfeed.com/smluniverse to Twitter http://twitter.com ... uses the http://pipes.yahoo.com/seeminglee/metasearchalerts Meta Search Alerts ... /
  • Meta Search Alerts: See-ming Lee / Google Analytics: SML Wiki: Content by Title / 2009-09-18 / SML Data, Bert and Ernie: Getting Trashed on Pinot Noir ... yahoo.com/seeminglee/metasearchalerts ... /
  • Pipes from See-ming Lee (SML) / FriendFeed http://friendfeed.com/smluniverse to Twitter http://twitter.com ... uses the http://pipes.yahoo.com/seeminglee/metasearchalerts Meta Search Alerts ... /
  • SML Wiki: Future / http://feeds.feedburner.com/metasearchalerts/future. 2nd reading The question asked was what has and will happen with my powers as a ... /
  • Pipes: Meta Search Alerts Digest / This pipe uses the http://pipes.yahoo.com/seeminglee/metasearchalerts Meta Search Alerts yahoo pipes to search content but truncate the description string and limit ... /

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