Using AideRSS To Filter Your Google Reader Feeds

Google Reader is an excellent web-based RSS reader which has the ability to absorb hundreds of feeds and display them in your chosen format. However if you subscribe to a lot of feeds then you must be aware that it’s not easy to read them everyday and usually you’ll scan through them and mostly mark all as read when you can’t take the load.

Enter AideRSS, a cool product to get the best RSS feeds delivered to you.

What is AideRSS ?

As they say – ” AideRSS is an intelligent assistant, which continuously monitors RSS feeds, finds the good stuff, creates a PostRankâ„¢, and delivers it to you. We do the grunt work of collecting information on every post, allowing you to focus on your agenda and stay on top of the news stream. ”

Hence it uses the PostRank technology to filter the RSS feeds and rank them accordingly. You can register on their site or use OpenId to login. You can also analyze any feed without registering, like I did for Google Tutor ( see screenshot below )

AideRSS + Google Reader

AideRSS + Google Reader is a cool firefox extension (greasemonkey script to be more precise) which brings the functions of AideRSS to our favorite feed reader. It helps you to score, filter and track performance of any RSS feed directly within your Google Reader.

This could be very beneficial for those who subscribe to a lot of feeds in their Google Reader and need to filter and get the best information. You can see the best feeds through postrank, filter any RSS feed according to your preference, hide filtered content or group them by source.

Overall, I found their postrank methodology to be quite accurate and you can certainly use this if you need the best content filtered out of your Google Reader feeds.