Be nice to yourself
By Alexey Gavrilov on March 25, 2008
Google Blog Search offers an easy way to subscribe to search notifications in Google Reader. Very simple and nice.
However, there is a problem. Here is how the feed looks in Reader’s list:
The actual search term is represented by the first letter only. Interestingly Google’s Russian rival Yandex makes the very same mistake (the line above Google’s).
Search term alerts feed name should start from the term itself:
Fixing that is easier than writing this post.
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