Yahoo May Have RSS Feed Search in the Works
Yahoo may be planning an enhanced news search site that also incorporates RSS feeds, a la Feedster, Technorati, Topix.net and PubSub. My Feedburner report shows that this blog was been crawled four times alone today alone by a bot called "Yahoo Newscrawler Test." Others are reporting this as well and it's showing up in their logs. Feedburner says...
"This is a Yahoo! crawler we do not recognize as the My Yahoo! RSS reader or anything else related to feed subscription. Therefore it is cataloged as a bot until we have additional evidence."
Has anyone seen this?
I've got to say Steve, I think you're going to break the record for the number of 'scoops' in 2005.
Keep it up!
Alex.
Posted by: Alex Barnett | Friday, February 11, 2005 at 04:57 PM
My secret is all in my log file. That's how I stumbled on CNET's reader.
Posted by: Steve Rubel | Friday, February 11, 2005 at 04:59 PM
Steve's right, it's all in the logs.
Shortly before Alta Vista launched in the mid 90's we saw a ton of traffic to our web server farm from digital.com. Same thing with Google.
Posted by: Josh Hallett | Friday, February 11, 2005 at 06:14 PM
Nice call. Except, it's not RSS, just XML.
Posted by: Randy Charles Morin | Tuesday, March 01, 2005 at 06:12 PM