Blekko's Teaming Up With Flipboard for RSS Search

Users can browse for new subscriptions using keywords.

Padmini Harchandrai|May 18, 2011, 17:18:12 IST

Alternative 'slasher' search engine, Blekko has tied up with iPad magazine reader, Flipboard for RSS searches. An announcement was made this morning that users looking for new content to subscribe to within Flipboard can search using keywords. The content will be delivered from RSS feeds. The layout of the RSS feed will be very different from say, Google Reader's which is very inbox-like. The feeds will be available in a more 'attractive' format in Flipboard.

Blekko allows you to search for keywords in Flipboard for RSS

This isn't the first time Flipboard's tied up for an RSS feed. It had already added Google Reader which was a system that assumed users already had their RSS feeds set up and just needed to access them on their iPads. With blekko, however, users just need to know what content they would like to see and perform a simple search. The Blekko integration is live in Flipboard's iPad application.

By Padmini Harchandrai

Paddy does not, we repeat, definitely does NOT belong in the category of Mac-head (yeh right!). She does get excited by her iPhone and her iMac and her iPod Nano and her Macbook and Bali's iPad and her future iHouse (patent pending). Ok, so maybe her head is a little bit forbidden fruit shaped. She likes shooting video (iPhone 4 camera zindabad!) and editing montages (Final Cut Pro zindabad!), whether the scene calls for it or no. In her spare time, she's either kicking it on stage with KB the keyboard or kicking butt at Taekwondo.