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Reliability: Do RSS search results match website's search results?
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Inclusiveness: Does RSS offer non-staff & archived stories (if also come through website search)?
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Key info: Does RSS give headline/summary, date, time, reporter?
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| Timeliness: Are RSS stories as timely as those from website search? |
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Acceptable |
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Not Acceptable |
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THE HEADLINES: Three RSS feeds were searched through the Yahoo! Pipes software: World, USA, and Commentary. On average, searches conducted using the three RSS feeds returned about 90 percent of “today’s” stories that came up on searches of the Christian Science Monitor’s website. Searches for both major and secondary news stories returned results that were quite consistent between the website and the RSS feeds. Overall, the RSS feeds were reliable most of the time. |
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The RSS feeds only brought up stories that were staff written. The website search appeared to do so as well. |
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The stories that came up on the RSS feeds and the stories that came up on the website search were typically the same. Archived stories always came up after conducting a website search, but these stories were categorized by date, making it easy to identify the current date’s stories. These archived stories never appeared on the RSS feeds. |
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The RSS feeds generally brought up all of the stories that came up that day on the web site without any delay, so it appeared that the RSS feeds were timely. |
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The RSS feeds did not return any multimedia results. |
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Search results for the RSS feeds gave the articles’ headlines/summaries, but other information was only available after clicking through to the full articles. An overview of date, time, author and summary would have been more useful and informative. The website searches included a headline, a summary, a date, and often a byline (i.e. csmonitor.com) and a document size (i.e. 53k) for each story returned. |
(Kristi Ellingsworth and Lauren Scott) |
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