FeedBagel now finds new publishers automatically. When a story breaks, it searches the web for other sites covering it, checks their RSS feeds, and adds the working ones to the rotation.
For readers, that means you stop seeing the same headline across six open tabs. You get a single story page with an also reported by The Hill, NBC, Hollywood Reporter… list and a short summary at the top.
How a story moves through
- A publisher posts an article to their RSS feed.
- FeedBagel polls feeds on a schedule. Active feeds get checked often, quiet ones less. New entries are picked up as they appear.
- Each entry is read, scored, tagged (news, opinion, tutorial, press release), and grouped with other coverage of the same story.
Grouping coverage
When several publishers cover the same story, FeedBagel puts them on one page with an also reported by list, instead of showing ten near-identical entries. Ten outlets, one story.
Summaries
Once enough publishers cover a story, FeedBagel writes a short summary at the top, kept free of any single outlet's framing. It works a bit like Perplexity, except everything underneath links to the original reporting. The summary updates as more outlets weigh in.
Discovering new publishers
Everything above works for publishers we already follow. The new part is active discovery: FeedBagel goes looking for sources it doesn't track yet.
- For each highly-rated news story, FeedBagel asks a search engine which other sites are covering it.
- It gets back roughly ten candidate sites.
- Any site we don't already track goes on a candidate list.
- Each candidate is checked: a feed-finder confirms it publishes RSS, the feeds aren't stale, and it's a genuine news source.
- The ones that pass are added to the rotation. From then on their new articles come in automatically, and their stories feed the next round of discovery.
Every breaking story doubles as a way to find new sources.
Among the early publishers added: Motorsport.com, Boston.com, TheHill, Hollywood Reporter, Insurance Journal, Fast Company, Black Enterprise, PetaPixel and The Walrus.
Why it matters
- For readers. Fewer stale headlines, better summaries, and more sources represented on every story.
- For us. The network grows on its own. Every story we cover well surfaces around five new sources worth tracking. Over time the rotation gets broader without anyone adding feeds by hand.
- For original content. With a clear picture of what every outlet is saying about a story, we can publish FeedBagel originals alongside the aggregated coverage.
FeedBagel reads public RSS feeds, groups the outlets covering the same story onto one page, adds a short summary, and uses each story to find more sources worth following.