If you're interested in learning more about how Google retrieves and displays RSS/ATOM feeds that end up on personalized homepages, the folks in Mountain View have just posted an FAQ about what they call Google "FeedFetcher.
This session explored how search engines are dealing with blogs and Web feed (RSS/Atom) content, and how providing such syndicated content can drive new search-related traffic. With blogs and RSS feeds, content is updated in real time," said Jeremy...
This session explored how search engines are dealing with blogs and Web feed (RSS/Atom) content, and how providing such syndicated content can drive new search-related traffic. The technical challenge involved in getting into the RSS feed wasn't...
Unlike Google, Yahoo lets you see all links to a particular domain rather than a URL, lets you filter out your own site when doing reverse link lookups, lets you search for more than 10 words in a query and lets you search for RSS/Atom/web feeds.
By the way, he mentions my use of the term "web feeds" as an umbrella for RSS and Atom feeds. This version for Search Engine Watch members offers specific, actionable tips for creating search engine friendly press releases, as well as tips for...
The crawling also opened up Google to accusations of favoring the web feed syndication formats of Atom and RDF-based RSS 1.0 over that of the popular non-RDF RSS version known as Really Simple Syndication (I'll refer to this simply as RSS below...
It also recaps fears some have that Google may favor the Atom distribution format that Google backs and the company's assurances that it won't. It also recaps fears some have that Google may favor the Atom distribution format that Google backs and...
