What was Hot Yesterday!
Yesterday marked the launch of the Hot Words section of RSS-Spider. What this section does is mash up all the posts from any given day, sort all the words from that day and count the number of times any specific word appears. From there it takes the top 100 words as they appear and rank them in font size order. So on January 25th the system processed all the documents in the database that had a pubdate of January 24 (this date comes from the RSS feed that the spider pulled) and found that in the top 100 terms used on that day Alito, Bush, Iraq and War all came up…
Clicking on any one of these terms will pull up all the articles stored in the database for that day with that term.
Currently we are only processing English language feeds, but our next step is to add a Hot Words for German users.