Ryan Naraine reports that SNS Ecademy's Julian Bond has received a cease-and-desist order —
with a warning that the creation of a news feed from the results of Google News was against its terms of reference.
According to Bond, the company requested the removal of RSS-powered Google News headlines from his Ecademy business networking site and made it clear Webmasters are not allowed to display headlines from Google News on third-party sites.
Bond goes on to express his disappointment with Google's failure to embrace RSS. Ryan Naraine points out that:
many in the content syndication space view Google's reluctance to embrace RSS as a strategic move to boost the competing Atom format, Bond thinks the company has simply not gotten around to adding syndication to the news portal.
...Google, through its Blogger service, has ditched RSS in favor of Atom syndication format but critics argue that the availability of competing formats is scaring away mainstream adoption of RSS.
In March this year, Dave Winer, the co-author of the RSS format proposed a merger between the two formats, insisting "it's time to bury the hatchet and move on."
1. No probs, you can always use other rss headlines searching them in yahoo or google and getting the rss/rdf files from there and hosting them at your site.
I am using BBC's news syndication service and you are welcome to use it for FREE in your site. Also look news.yahoo.com/rss for Yahoo powered news headlines - its free for personal sites.
Best
Arup
Posted at 4:45AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Arup Bhanja