New Evergreen Squidoo Module - Feed My Search
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As I was lensbuilding this weekend I noticed a new evergreen Module has been released into the wild for Squidoo lensmasters. (What is an evergreen module?)
The Feed My Search module uses FeedMySearch.com to pull relevant news, blog posts, and search engine results into lenses. It works similar to the google blog search module which is also evergreen.
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I tried out the new module on some lenses I was making this weekend and had some mixed results. It seemed as if the module timed out about 40% of the time returning no results. However, when results were returned, I found the news and blog search results to be more relevant than the google Blog Search module.
Whenever squidoo gets new modules, I like to take them for a test drive to see how they perform. On several of the lenses I used the Feed My Search module on, they were indexed very quickly compared to other lenses I made this weekend (less than 24 hours for some). While the sample size was very small (I only made like 7 lenses this past weekend) I think that the initial results are promising.
I’m going to use Feed My Search going forward for the next few weeks and see how it does. If it seems to be performing well and has a minimum of timeouts, I may even go back and replace the hundreds of google Blog Search modules I have on my lenses. This is a big project though so I’m not going to undertake it lightly.
Have you seen any new modules lately? I try to keep an eye on the new module releases but I’ll be the first to say I miss them every once in a while. If you let me know about one I haven’t heard of I’ll credit you with the find and do a write-up / analysis of it.
New Week and New Modules, make some new lenses!
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I will try this on my new lenses this month. Will be interesting to note any differences from Google.
Thanks, Capt!
BadMsM
Doesn’t the feed my search module actually use google search? that’s what the description says anyhow.
I’ve used it, it does seem better than the typical Google Blog Search results but (7 lenses on the weekend, OMG!)I didn’t track to see if it resulted in better/faster placement.
Neat, I might have to start using this. Google Blog Search drives me nuts sometimes, and this one looks like it’s much better.
I am going to add this to some of my lenses now. I have been disapointed in the Google blog search on family reunions. Maybe this one is the ticket! Thank you!
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Your recommendation makes a huge difference. Just added the module to my novel writing lens. Thanks for the tip.
Jean
I haven’t used this module yet but I have a pretty good idea how to test it on a lens that’s been out and successful for a few days - but still not indexed by google… 
Thanks for the tip! 
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Thanks for the tip Captain. I am going to add this module to several of my lenses right now.