Chronos Digital Technology » Uncategorized http://blog.chronosdigital.com Blogging and web design blog Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Buying a car using RSS http://blog.chronosdigital.com/2006/02/27/buying-a-car-using-rss/ http://blog.chronosdigital.com/2006/02/27/buying-a-car-using-rss/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:08:40 +0000 AlexH http://blog.chronosdigital.com/2006/02/27/buying-a-car-using-rss/ Craigslist offers RSS feeds on their searches.  So if you are in the market for a new car, and want to put RSS to work for you, just make a search and subscribe to the feed link provided in the bottom right corner.

For example:

Now watch for the ads to roll in.

Craigslist even stays true to their minimalist style by using simple text with an orange background rather than the RSS icon!

I noticed that my local Buy and Sell is also doing this but their search interface isn’t as friendly, plus I don’t want to limit myself to just Vancouver.

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]]> http://blog.chronosdigital.com/2006/02/27/buying-a-car-using-rss/feed/ 0 A very simple idea for improving search http://blog.chronosdigital.com/2006/01/09/a-very-simple-idea-for-improving-search/ http://blog.chronosdigital.com/2006/01/09/a-very-simple-idea-for-improving-search/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:43:37 +0000 AlexH http://blog.chronosdigital.com/2006/01/09/a-very-simple-idea-for-improving-search/ Dave Winer’s idea for improving search:

Scripting News: 1/9/2006

Let me tell you where my weblog is. Then it knows what my interests are. Give me search results relevant to who I am.

That is a very cool idea, and I’d like to see the results from that search! It would also encourage people to start blogging, or blog more if they could improve their search results. If Google implemented this, I hope that they would allow you to use any URL as your identity, and not just a page in their blog network.

It’s somewhat related to the Outfoxed extension, but that only sorts the results from a Google search on a single page, ie it will move something to the top of page 1 only if it appeared on page 1 in the first place.

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