Kurt I was wondering if you or any one else within Domb Bombers has been using the Google News Bar and if it would be possible to use with tools like Scrubs and Blogbomb to create unique posts from the API of Googles Alerts.

It looks in principle a great idea but they using something using AJAX and not RSS as far as I understand but are they compatible and if so how?

http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/newsbar/index.html