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06-21-2005, 09:00 AM

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How Search Engines Index RSS & Why It Doesn't Necessarily M

When will Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask Jeeves start indexing RSS feeds properly? from Stephan Spencer spotted via InsideGoogle is a nice look at what happens with RSS feeds when major search engines encounter them -- or more correctly, what doesn't happen with them. File formats aren't recognized, text in the feed may not be indexed and other problems exist that make web search engines a bad place to go if you want to search just against feeds. So what? As I'll explore, indexing RSS files isn't as important as it may seem, not for the twin goals of feed...

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