Now that Google is offering RSS feeds of news alerts, I’m testing them out on 15 terms and phrases. I have set up many of the same alerts in Technorati, which mainly indexes blogs. (The Google News position on indexing blogs is unclear; however, some blogs or quasi-blogs, such as this one from ZDNet, appear to be indexed.) I am curious to see what the overlap between Technorati alerts and Google News alerts is like.

Unfortunately, Google still isn’t offering RSS or Atom feeds of search results from its main search engine. I suspect there will be considerable duplication between my two sets of Google alerts–email alerts from the main engine and RSS alerts from the news engine.