google search as an rss feed

Is there a way to have treat google serach resu开发者_开发问答lts as an rss feed?

For example say I worked for stackoverflow and wanted to montior how if the results from the following search url: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=stackoverflow changes from day today.

It would be cool if I could append &output=rss to the url and get back a feed like with google news. But that does not seem to be supported.

Anyone have ideas? (Note I am programing with Ruby and Rails, if that matters)

Thanks!

Jonathan

Google has the Google Alerts service, which notifies you whenever it finds new content matching a certain query. Besides sending to an email address (instantly, daily, weekly), it allows you to create an RSS feed out of it.

No, Google doesn't offer that feature. If you need to parse/convert the result of a query on Google, you can use a (X)HTML parser such as Nokogiri.

Beware that automatic requests to Google may violate its TOS.