Google News unhides the RSS option. Will it last?
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Google was one of the first big websites to get rid of the RSS option. Facebook and Twitter followed suit. Bing News had an RSS option but it also disappeared. Initially, it seemed like there was a war on RSS but the excuse was that as websites built mobile-friendly pages, RSS was eliminated in the transition. This became more true as many websites decided monetize their mobile apps and eliminated the freeloaders on RSS. Now, Google News has brought back the RSS feed link (in the footer) in a different format. How long will it last? Meanwhile, Google has also indicated that the old RSS links (some versions continued to work) will be obsoleted. The new Google News links are like this: HTML - https://news.google.com/news/search/section/q/aadhaar RSS - https://news.google.com/news/rss/search/section/q/aadhaar (aadhaar can be replaced with any other search term)
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Google was one of the first big websites to get rid of the RSS option. Facebook and Twitter followed suit. Bing News had an RSS option but it also disappeared. Initially, it seemed like there was a war on RSS but the excuse was that as websites built mobile-friendly pages, RSS was eliminated in the transition. This became more true as many websites decided monetize their mobile apps and eliminated the freeloaders on RSS. Now, Google News has brought back the RSS feed link (in the footer) in a different format. How long will it last? Meanwhile, Google has also indicated that the old RSS links (some versions continued to work) will be obsoleted. The new Google News links are like this: HTML - https://news.google.com/news/search/section/q/aadhaar RSS - https://news.google.com/news/rss/search/section/q/aadhaar (aadhaar can be replaced with any other search term)
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