Thursday, April 22, 2004


Cue Michael Corleone in GFIII


Originally posted as a comment on this rant, but somebody at Harvard doesn’t like me and won’t allow me to post there.

The default, out of the box setups for Moveable Type and Blogger create files at index.rdf and atom.xml automatically, respectively, correct? Seems like a pretty good reason to look for those files if it’s indexing a known weblog that hasn’t done the expected autodiscovery mumbo-jumbo in it’s <head>.

Looking at my logs, though, Google is indexing my RSS 2.0 and RSS 0.91 files, and not my Atom and RSS 1.0 feeds.

Dammit, Google is flexing their muscles and trying to kill Atom and RDF. It’s a conspiracy, I tell you!


:: Dave Walker 13:55 (EST/EDT) [+]

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Kinda off-topic. I've banned bots from scanning my feeds by shunting them off to their own directory. I did this after I saw some referrals to entries from my RSS url, and the information in the search was no longer there because of the post timeline. If Google is planning a Feedster type service that would make sense, if not, I can't see any helpful use in indexing these files for long term search results. RSS/Atom/RDF doesn't look like an archive, yet. Which brings me to Dave Winer's manufactured hysteria. To put it succinctly, he *may* have a point, I just wish someone else -- who isn't so annoying -- would make it.
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I do think they're working on some sort of feed search -- it only makes sense. Dave comes out of this looking a bit addled, though -- Google's on his enemies list, and he can't help bending over backwards to find reasons to go nuclear.



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