You can now sign up to receive RSS and Atom feeds on your personalized Google home page via Google’s Feedfetcher service. To try out this service, users can sign up here.
This looks to be a great alternative service for those seeking to keep up with current events and news from their favorite sites without logging in to services like My Yahoo.
According to Google:
Feedfetcher is how Google grabs RSS or Atom feeds when users choose to add them to their Google homepage. Feedfetcher collects and periodically refreshes these user-initiated feeds, but does not index them in Google’s search services (feeds only appear in our search results if they’ve been crawled by Googlebot).
You can get answers to your questions on Feedfetcher here.