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193  - SUBSCRIBE TO GOOGLE’S FEEDS

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subscribe to the RSS feed contained within this HTML page, open its source and look for the part

reading alt=rss and copy the URL you see to add it to Google Reader. The format of the feed URL will

be similar to this one:

http://www.google.com/notebook/feeds/12341500972093356787/notebooks/BDRRESwoWkbdw5vMh?alt=rss

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Google Groups (http://groups.google.com) is Google’s Usenet discussion group display service.

You can navigate to any group, then subscribe to it using the orange XML button at the bottom of

the page, which will take you to a page displaying different feed formats.

For instance, the feed for the Usenet group rec.arts.comics.misc (miscellaneous discussion of comic

books as part of the recreation/arts groups hierarchy) looks like this:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics.misc/feed/atom_v1_0_msgs.xml

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Picasa is Google’s online photo storage and display service. Navigate to http://picasaweb.google.

com and then to any one of your albums or to the albums of others, and you will nd an RSS link

at the bottom right of the page. You can subscribe to it using Google Reader to track the list of new

photos being added to the album over time.

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To get the RSS feed for any Google YouTube tag result, replace the bold part in the following URL

with ...