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Search Engine Journal: Google Now Uses RSS/Atom Feeds to Discover New Websites
D' Technology Weblog: Google crawls ‘RSS/Atom feeds’ to index URLs
ReadWriteWeb: Google Now Scanning RSS, Atom Feeds, May Experiment with Real-Time Protocols in Future
| Using RSS/Atom feeds to discover new URLs http://tinyurl.com/yhvma9a 11/7/2009 |
| Google now indexes RSS feeds!!!! http://bit.ly/2dnqpF 11/5/2009 |
| RT: @sebseo: Google follows your feed RSS to discover new content ! http://tinyurl.com/yhvma9a 11/4/2009 |
Google Now Uses RSS/Atom Feeds to Discover New Websites
Search Engine Journal —
... The Google Webmaster Central Blog has just posted a short note to announce that Google is now using RSS/Atom feeds to discover new webpages. In other words Google is now indexing and crawling not only contents found on websites and blogs but contents that are syndicated from them through RSS/Atom feeds.Whereas before, Google relies mainly on the links provided on website and blog contents, now your site can be found by Google through RSS/Atom feeds that are published on online RSS Feed reader, such as Google Reader. ...
Google crawls ‘RSS/Atom feeds’ to index URLs
D' Technology Weblog —
... URLs, Google recently launched a feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds to discover new web pages. This helps Google index new webpages faster than traditional methods. As a result, you must make sure that crawling of you feeds isn't disallowed by your robots.txt. To find out if Googlebot can crawl your feeds, test your feed URLs with robots.txt tester. Going forward, we might also explore mechanisms such as PubSubHubbub to identify updated items, explained Google. ...
Google Now Scanning RSS, Atom Feeds, May Experiment with Real-Time Protocols in Future
ReadWriteWeb —
... According to a post on Google's Webmaster Central blog, Google is now discovering web sites by automatically scanning RSS and Atom feeds. This new process will help Google more quickly identify web pages and will allow users to find new content in search results as soon as it goes live. While not exactly "real-time," using feeds to identify updates to websites is an arguably faster method than than the traditional crawling techniques Google has used in the past. And Google may get even faster in the near future - the post also notes that the company may soon ...
Google Feeds Its Spiders
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... According to a post on Google’s Webmaster Central blog, Google is now discovering web sites by automatically scanning RSS and Atom feeds. This new process will help Google more quickly identify web pages and will allow users to find new content in search results as soon as it goes live. While not exactly “real-time,” using feeds to identify updates to websites is an arguably faster method than the traditional crawling techniques Google has used in the past. And Google may get even faster in the near future – the post also notes that the company may soon ...
Google search to get speed boost – a good reason to use full text feeds
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... , and a post on Google’s Webmaster Central blog, Google is targeting RSS and Atom feeds in order to identify fresh content on web pages. Granted this isn’t the real time search that proponents commonly talk about but it is definitely a much faster method that previously used. ...






