I'm a big fan of Superfeedr and the work Julien is doing with it... but a serious problem with a keyword product based on RSS ingest is that many RSS feeds are

I'm a big fan of Superfeedr and the work Julien is doing with it... but a serious problem with a keyword product based on RSS ingest is that many RSS feeds are not 'full-content' and so the keyword searching is patchy. In the case of 'short form' RSS feeds, you are not going to get a match if your keyword is mentioned repeatedly in a given article, but not in the first paragraph - which is what is published in the RSS feed, and thus ingested by Superfeedr While it is probably fair to say that the majority of RSS feeds Superfeedr is tracking are 'full-content', the head of the long tail (ie the mainstream news sources, top blogs, etc) where much of the value is are the least likely to offer full content RSS feeds (they are old-skool thinking and want you to click through to the mother ship). What is a shame, I think, is that none of these services (there are a few now in this space) are really upfront about this massive short-coming, which at a technical level they must be aware of. Given that I'm making a bit of a bash at providers in this space, I should probably disclose that NewsBasis (a company I previously co-founded and have an interest in, but no longer working with) is in the process of solving this problem as part of their wider product offering. Which is why I've spent time thinking about this problem, but perhaps also biased. However, I'm hoping once this is stable there might be an opportunity to create an API off the back of the keyword piece.