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Ricardo Lopes
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8 months ago
in Google Alerts to add RSS on Plagiarism Today
Ok, ill give you one strong reason: RSS is FASTER
The reason why this is somerhing good is because RSS is suposedly faster than e-mail delivery, and no matter how fast and local, google emails are being sent, they still will have to go through a process of mail queu, on the other hand, by rss, you should maybe at a certain point, define the refresh of your feeds, optimizing time, freeing servers and the most important, receiving the news in the shortest amount of time.
Of course, this will also depend on whether email alerts and rss will be sent out at the same time.
It's not only a question of format, but rather, the speed it can provide in data transmission.
As well as the reduction of many times anuecessary content traffic.
The reason why this is somerhing good is because RSS is suposedly faster than e-mail delivery, and no matter how fast and local, google emails are being sent, they still will have to go through a process of mail queu, on the other hand, by rss, you should maybe at a certain point, define the refresh of your feeds, optimizing time, freeing servers and the most important, receiving the news in the shortest amount of time.
Of course, this will also depend on whether email alerts and rss will be sent out at the same time.
It's not only a question of format, but rather, the speed it can provide in data transmission.
As well as the reduction of many times anuecessary content traffic.
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The reason is this. Google Reader updates feeds once an hour, less if there is only one subscriber (something that would be true for nearly all Google Alert feeds). As such, there will be an average delay of about 30 minutes before any new item appears. Email, in those cases, would likely be much faster, probably taking less than 10 minutes.
Granted, there are ways to mitigate this but what the speed issue comes down to is how you have your email setup vs. how you have your RSS set up. For some feeds will be faster, others will get more quickness out of email.
Still, I don't think that a delay of even an hour is going to be much to most Google Alert users. Most, I doubt, check their alerts often enough to notice.
Just my theory though, I could be wrong.
Thank you for your thoughts!