Monday, April 30, 2007

#9: RSS Search Tools

The searching algorithms for the RSS and blog search engines leave much to be desired - the results were definitely not what I'd call relevant to my searches. Terms that I had the most success with were things like "knitting", which actually returned feeds and blogs that were about knitting. Searching for "library" or "libraries" sort of worked - some of the results were library related, whereas some of the other results seemed to get pulled just because the word "library" was mentioned in a post.

Funniest and most irrelevant search result: keyword search for "food san francisco" returned this page by someone who wanted to write an official "about" page for Becks & Posh. Unfortunately, the link didn't work. Shucks.

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