The search company has been quietly testing a service that pairs text or graphical ads from its Google AdSense network with feeds formatted in the syndication standards RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or Atom.
While news sites and bloggers are getting hot under the collar about RSS, it seems hardly anyone else is. A report from Forrester Research has found that just two per cent of US internet users are making use of RSS feeds.
Bond himself said on Tuesday Google had taken action because the results of his RSS feed from Google were being fed into online RSS aggregators and then republished on the web. Google has introduced RSS and Atom feeds for its popular Google News...
One in 10 blog readers is now using RSS, according to a new report, but the vast majority of weblog addicts have never heard of the technology. The study, from net monitoring firm Nielsen Netratings, found that more than 60 per cent of blog readers...
Google's tool is designed to find listings beyond those published through its own Blogger.com service by searching blogs that publish feeds via RSS or Atom. launched an ad-network for bloggers and other small publishers and began quietly testing...
Users can also create their own feeds of posts based on topic or search and can subscribe to the searches on Bloglines and on rival blog or RSS feed readers from Google, Yahoo! Instead of crawling the web for blog postings to build an index to...