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Avatar Posted By: eKstreme 334 days ago
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The Yahoo! SERPs now include an embedded RSS feed that points to the Yahoo! API, exactly as a blog embeds a feed you can subscribe to. Very cool and very useful!
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from tappingcreativity 334 days ago #
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Personally, I like this idea. I can't help but think that the majority of searchers will have no idea what it is or why they need it. But, hey, I'm happy.

from fantomaster 334 days ago #
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Yes, the possibilities (both white hat and black) are pretty vast. Thanks for the pointer.

from mvandemar 334 days ago #
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Although they don't supply the button for it, MSN has been doing this for ages:

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=science&form=QBRE&format=rss

You have to manually add &format=rss to the url, but it works with any search.

from TimDineen 334 days ago #
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Its a good idea, and Yahoo wouldn't be the first search engine to offer RSS on results pages... probably is it doesn't work, right now.

Did anyone actually try to view the RSS page? I can't see it myself and here's why:

Using Firefox, I clicked the icon in my address window expecting to be sent to the RSS page withi my browser. But the page I was on refreshed instead.

So I checked the code to see if I could get the RSS page url. BUT The HTML embed shows a blank href attribute.

link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Yahoo! Search results for test" href=""

(I removed the brackets from the code above so that this comment wouldn't get garbled.)

Are other seeing a real RSS page or same as me??


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