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Sunday, July 10th, 2005, 4:13 am

Yahoo RSS

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Yahoo officially offer delivery of search results as RSS feeds. They join MSN Search in providing this type of service. Is it possible that Google’s competitors are willing to proliferate as much bandwidth as it takes just to challenge Google and steal some of its avid users? No doubt RSS feeds of this nature consume a lot of traffic and get a very low clickthrough rate from feed subscribers. In fact, people with interest in such a service are often pre-occupied with SEO and keep track of SERPs or news of one particular niche.

The news is rather disappointing for Google enthusiasts. As they offer no analogous service (Google Alerts instead), I set up about 5 feeds from MSN search (no clickthrough though, ever), 2 from Yahoo! Finance (since February 2005) and 5 from Yahoo! News. Google appear reluctant to provide feeds so I ended up using a workaround. There are similar workarounds for eBay or even static HTML pages.

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  1. SEO Files Says:

    Yahoo RSS
    [Source: schestowitz.com] quoted: Yahoo RSS Filed under: Internet SEO by Site Administrator at 4:13 am ahoo officially offer delivery of search results…

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