I tried Deja news, but the interface they have set up is such a pain in the a$$!. You have to click through almost 2 pages of stuff to get to the actual message. :|
Hmmmmmm....I tried doing the web search thing as well, but a lot of the sites that popped up required you to pay for the service. They offered what I was looking for (ability to use a news reader of my choice), except they were pay services 🙁