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Originally Posted by REZARF
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Can you explain how to do this to non-computer dudes like me? That sounds too cool 
Thanks!
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First off, it helps if you make iGoogle your homepage (since you can add Google Reader right to it, along with a lot of other stuff...news, weather, quotes, movie times, gmail preview.....).
iGoogle
You can then hit "Add Stuff" (
Add gadgets to your homepage ) and search for "Google Reader" to add to your homepage.
Once that's done, you can add the RSS to Google Reader. Here's an example of Craigslist for my area for trailers:
craigslist medford | for sale / wanted search for "trailer"
http://medford.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=trailer&format=rss
You can also just search, and in the bottom right corner click where it says "RSS". That *SHOULD* generate an RSS feed (then copy/paste the link into Google Reader). If it doesn't, just pretty much add
&format=rss to the URL (for Craigslist, but suprisingly that'll work for a lot of other sites too) to any search and you should get the RSS version.
For Oodle and other places, the procedure is essentially the same. Ebay used to have an RSS search, dunno what happened to it (couldn't find it last time I looked).
You can do a lot of slick stuff with Google Reader, and quite a few places are actually building support of RSS into the pages now.
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