NewsGator Online – Smart Feeds
As I was look
ing through the tools within NewsGator Online, and I stumbled across something called a Smart Feeds within the Browse Feeds menu. These are keyword or url searches or they can be email feeds.
The keyword search is simple to use, and once entered, it basically scours the internet (so you don’t have to) in order to find the word o
r phrase that you enter. Then it robotically brings all the feeds that it finds back to your NewsGator Online inbox. All you have to do to set this feature up is go to “Browse Feeds” then click on the “Smart Feeds” tab. Make sure that Keyword Search is highlighted and enter the keyword or phrase that you want to search into the box and click “Add”. The keyword search then drops into the current list (below) and a new folder is automatically generated in the folder tree. Th
e new folder will be named Newsgator: Keyword Search for **the keyword you entered**. You can have up to 20 of these Keyword Searches created to track all of your favorite hobbies, subjects, sports team, whatever you want!Since I am a fan of the band Soundgarden, I thought I would try this Keyword Search out to see how it works. Even though Soundgarden is no more, they are in the news because of the new Chris Cornell album. Anyway this 
tool worked pretty well. It pulled several feeds from places that I probably would not have thought to look. The one thing that I noticed that was interesting but a little annoying was that it does not have a language setting. Consequently it pulled any post, in any language that had the keyword Soundgarden. That meant that I got some Russian and Swedish postings that were not about the band but were about some sort of art works, but since I cannot read those languages I am not sure what they said.
I have to say that I do recommend this tool if there is a topic that you want to keep updated on from all angles. It looks like it has the potential to become overwhelming if the keywords have a large number of posts that it returns. It would be really good for an obscure topic that maybe doesn’t have a high volume of postings regarding it.
ing through the tools within NewsGator Online, and I stumbled across something called a Smart Feeds within the Browse Feeds menu. These are keyword or url searches or they can be email feeds.
r phrase that you enter. Then it robotically brings all the feeds that it finds back to your NewsGator Online inbox. All you have to do to set this feature up is go to “Browse Feeds” then click on the “Smart Feeds” tab. Make sure that Keyword Search is highlighted and enter the keyword or phrase that you want to search into the box and click “Add”. The keyword search then drops into the current list (below) and a new folder is automatically generated in the folder tree. Th
e new folder will be named Newsgator: Keyword Search for **the keyword you entered**
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