New Limits at Daypop

Dan Chan has announced new ways to search RSS and and future changes to Daypop. He says that he will expand the drop-down menu choices from RSS Headlines to RSS News & Weblogs, RSS News, and RSS Weblogs. The current option only searches RSS files from news sources, not blogs. While waiting for the menu change, it is possible now to search blog RSS by doing search and then changing the end of the URL from &t=a (or w or n or h) to &t=p (which means type=posts). The advantage to using this trick is that the link will go directly to the blog posting rather than to the main blog page where the individual posting may have moved down or even into an archive already.

For another source for searching RSS, try Feedster which just searches RSS feeds (from both blogs and news sites). Daypop does not yet included cached copies of the RSS feed posting. Feedster does include a cached copy, but depending on the RSS feed, it may only be the first few lines of the posting.