So Google has finally opted to offer RSS for Google Video. Oh sure, it’s still in Alpha. Then again, Gmail remains in Beta! And besides that, RSS either works or not. What is with this talk about RSS being in Alpha? The whole thing seems sort of silly to me.

Google delivered the news of the new test and cautioned that this first release needs feedback from its users. They have implemented parts of the Media RSS extension and want to make sure the new feeds are standards compliant.

The Google Video page does not have links to the feeds yet. The only place to grab the feeds is from their newsgroup post. One link brings the most popular videos to the feedreader, while the other delivers the feed of any video search results page.

Users can manually tweak the feeds. The “num” parameter can be set from 1 to 100, Google noted in its newspost. The “q” parameter should be familiar to anyone who has looked at a Google search URL; it represents the query the user made. Source: WebProNews