A comment on one of my del.icio.us posts directed me to a new social bookmarking search engine, Gataga. In principle it’s a great idea, in that it lets you simultaneously search del.icio.us, blogmarks, blinklist and Jots for a given tag.
But at least the beta version falls hugely short by not providing RSS feeds for the search results, which is absolutely essential to making this kind of tag aggregator into a useful tool. If it provided RSS fees for search results I would immediately subscribe to Gataga feeds for searches on e-democracy, tagging etc. As-is I’m still going to be dependent on del.icio.us- and Furl-specific feeds for those tags so why bother checking Gataga for the few additional items that the big 2 might have missed?
If Gataga starts providing RSS feeds — and if it can find a way to incorporate Furl, and ideally also Simpy, Spurl and maybe even Connotea results — it could turn out to be a handy tool.
Hi Alexandra,
Thanks for the feedback. We strongly believe that the evolution of Gataga will be from comments and views. From your feedback, we’ve enabled RSS feeds for search results, and we’re also now indexing simpy, spurl, connotea and furl. We hope you’ll be able to use this service, and maybe it’ll even replace all your other feeds!
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