MSN Search Introduces Feed Search
Search Engine Optimization Tips, Search Marketing Resources August 31st, 2005According to the unofficial Google weblog, MSN search users can now enter the following operators into the MSN search engine as follows:
feed: The feed operator returns feeds matching the search query. The results are raw feeds; click on one and you get .xml code. However, click on the “Cached page” link to see an intelligible feed display as you would in a newsreader. MSN crawls full feed content.
hasfeed: this operator returns matched results of Web pages that include a link to a feed. By and large, the linked feed is the feed for that page or site, not another, so hasfeed: offers a secondary and more familiar, Web-centric method of finding content.
RSS and Atom feeds come from other sources besides blogs so this wouldn’t necessarily act as a blog specific search engine but it does come pretty close. This could come in as a handy tool for users who want to search for relevant content for syndication on their sites or for reprint purposes.
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