Now you can browse to a webpage and see if you have linked to it in one of your past blog posts

re: search via OPML URL

Just to clarify what I meant was in a service like Blogdigger groups I enter eg. 10 feeds, and I can search across these 10 feeds in the one go.
In Rollyo you can do this across 10 homepage URL’s.

Anyway…now your Blogdigger groups has an OPML URL, is there are service where I can take this OPML and do the same kind of search.
Example, at the moment I can’t search across all my feeds (OPML) in my Rojo RSS Reader, I could import my Rojo OPML into Blogdigger Groups so I can search across all my feeds, but this is just an aspect of Blogdigger Groups, BDG’s is a Public RSS Reader, and I may not want to go to this trouble to just search across my OPML.

So I’m looking for a simple search service (similar to Rollyo, perhaps ScoopGo), where I can enter my OPML URL in one box, and a search term in another box, and submit.

All this will do is search across eg. 10 feeds at the same time, just like Rollyo searches across multiple sites at the same time.

The power of this is that imagine everyone of those 10 feeds was a spliced feed (eg. 25 feeds into one), then you will be actually searching across 250 sites.

NOTE: My OPML doesn’t have to be a Reading List, just say I used an OPML outliner like OPML Workstation to create an OPML of my favourite blog homepages (not feeds)…and I update this all the time.
I’d like to enter this OPML URL at a service and search for a term.

This other issue is when I join a service, eg. Rollyo, I’d like to get my Rollyo to subscribe to this OPML.

re: Your slightly different idea

“each feed in the OPML bundle could just define a differently limited search topic”

Do you mean that each feed in your OPML could represent a topic, perhaps if you had 10 feeds, each feed could be a search feed for a term (this is your topic), or perhaps every feed is a spliced feed (combine 10 or so feeds of your favourite topic into one feed).

But what’s this part mean:
“with a link for each search topic that takes the search query term and runs it against a different searchfeed.”

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It seems OPML search (http://www.opmlsearch.com) could do what I’m requesting (whether the OPML contains links or feeds).

Enter your OPML in one box, and enter a search term in another box…at the moment I’m getting errors, but I have have the feeling (from a recollection of an earlier convesation with Bela) that this doesn’t search full-text, it will just search for that term in the fields from each node of your OPML…I’m not too sure about this.

“I come across this post http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/10/searchfox-to-shut-down…and I know I have blogged about it before.
How do I find my post that points to this URL?”

You were on the right track, but didn’t look Beyond Google…

AltaVista, for example, will let you search by link: limiter and other terms (e.g.. url: or title:):

http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.techcrunch.com%2F2006%2F01%2F10%2Fsearchfox-to-shut-down+url%3Alibraryclips.blogsome.com&kgs=1&kls=0

Re: want to feed an OPML file into searchfeedr - I KNEW you were going to say that!

However, all my tools are made up of half-hout to evening session hacks, with the intention that everything can be done client side (in the browser). To consume an OPML feed means loading all the separate feeds, pulling out their links, removing duplicates, and then using these to feed the search. The Yahoo query that searchfeedr builds is effectively limited by yahoo to the number of sites that can be searched over, so if an opml file had several rss feeds, each of which had several links, a lot of them wouldn’t get fed to yahoo anyway.

My thought for using OPML wsa slightly different - each feed in the OPML bundle could just define a differently limited search topic, with a link for each search topic that takes the search query term and runs it against a different searchfeed.

tony