Micro Persuasion: Yahoo May Have RSS Feed Search in the Works

Friday, February 11, 2005

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?

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