Feedster now can index your entire weblog if you have an RSS archive of it. I have one for much of 2002, and all of 2003.
Isn't it obvious that either Google or Yahoo will buy Feedster so their search engine can understand RSS. Then the other guy is going to wonder why they missed the boat. After that, they can make their search engines understand OPML and throw out the antiquated centralized directories and let the amateurs compete to create the best directory for a given topic, the same way we compete for page rank. No more one guy controlling a category. That just doesn't work. It's cool that Google has competition from a highly regarded company like Yahoo. Now search is a market. Before it was a company town.
Dave Winer on the new search market. Will Feedster become a target. Part of me hopes so, at least if not in name then at least the development of alternative technology to do the same job. After all are we ever going to get to this semantic web stuff?
Probably but I don't really understand it well enough. Another action to me - understand Semantic web.
Posted by Paul Goodison at July 16, 2003 09:33 AM | TrackBack