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Just saw a report on Threadwatch about the launch of a blog searching service by Google. Google is only catching up with the existing services as it’s not anything new - Technorati, Feedster and others have been doign this for ages though they were specifically targettign blog indexing and search and nothing else.

Now, since this is Google, the question is how this new service will affect general SERPs. One would guess it might be more effective now to use blogs to promote your site. Maybe, maybe not. These two may be not related to each other in anyway and getting your blog searched through this service might have nothing to do with your site gettign indexed. The mechanism Google uses for this new service and its effect on site indexing still has to be researched. On the bright side though,

Google defines blogs as sites that use RSS and other structured feeds and update content on a regular basis.

- which means if a site has an RSS feed it can also benefit from the new service.

Another question that I can’t help wondering about is the RSS feed for the search results Google makes available. With the many uses it can have, the only question is whether Google will not oppose people using it for anything other that their “personal use”, like with Alerts and grumbling about people creating solutions to pull a feed out of SERPs.

It’s been a few months now since I have first seen they are offering or going to offer AdSense for feeds. Feeds are going commercial - that’s the common tendency. Feedburner has been working on a similar program. Moreover.com has been doing it for ages now. Now AdSense. Blogger blogs have a special field in the blogs setup to paste your AdSense for feeds code in, and AdSense’s help mentions it along with the details on how to set up and optimize it. But once you fill out their form to apply for it, nothing happens. Maybe it’s just me? Or are they just taking their time to test it and see how many people would be interested? Anybody had any luck with it yet?

This is a really messed up concept. Some have been doing it successfully for a long time by now, others are just starting. Moreover has been putting ads into their feeds for a while, Feedburner is just starting their own program for it. Mysterious Google ads for feeds is another issue - everyone has heard of them but not many had a chance to use them - if anybody at all?

I have printed this article a whle ago but never had time to read it carefully, only glanced at it. Today, while being AFK, I’ve been reading it and found out it has a ton of useful links I never noticed before. When I got back to my computer I checked the online version - some of the links have become outdated as I believe this article was written around 2003 - but it’s still a good source of RSS information. What I seem to remember reading is something about tools to scrape my site/blog and turn it into an RSS feed - but I can’t seem to find it in the online version - could the article have been changed since I printed it out or am I just too tired? LOL

I fell in love with it at first sight. I acknowledge I discovered it a bit too late - well not TOO late but I would have been happier to have learned of it and have started using it sooner. In my opinion, the Internet community still has to realize all the ways RSS can be used and how it can change the Internet as we knew it.