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September 17, 2007

Google Trying to Remove RSS Feeds from Search Results

The other day we asked Should Google Display RSS Feeds in Web Search Results?

Saturday, GoogleGuy, replied to the WebmasterWorld thread saying:

I think that we've been getting better recently about not showing RSS/Atom feeds in the search results.

So it appears that Google feels, in many cases, RSS/Atom feeds should not be shown in the search results.

I see that Search Engine Land's feed URL has dropped in the rankings for a search on search engine land but the feed can still be found on the first page.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.



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posted rustybrick in Google Optimization at September 17, 2007 8:36 AM Comments (3)

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Except for the fact that spammers scrape them, I would prefer that Google create a filetype query operator so that we could search for RSS feeds.

But that's just me.

 

Posted by Michael Martinez at September 17, 2007 13:23

Doh!

...never mind...

Not feeling too healthy today.

 

Posted by Michael Martinez at September 17, 2007 13:25

I'll be happy when I no longer click on a link in the SERPs and get taken to the "add to Google Hompage or Google Reader" page. I hate having RSS/Atom feeds show up in the SERPs.

Having said that, I like Michael's idea about being able to specifically search for RSS feeds only.

 

Posted by Adam Snider at September 18, 2007 14:40

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