MSN's RSS feed

Discussion in 'Bing' started by johnt, Jan 26, 2005.

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    http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050110-105100

    MSN is now putting out its search results in RSS format. If you look at the source code of any SERPs page in MSN beta ( or normal now that they seem to have taken beta live, at least in the UK ) there's a div with id rss_format which they are currently using CSS to hide.
    If you append "&format=rss" to any query string you will see the feed.

    I guess that this is MS's answer to Google's API, 'cause it will allow them to plug MSN search capabillity into any new application / OS they produce. Very clever of them, and unusually standards compliant ;)

    John
     
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    RSS and web service are the future of the search technology
     
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    Wow! Seriously, just wow...

    And...it's about time!
     
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    How is Microsoft going to make money from providing this service. Is this just going to a complementary service to the normal portal? This is much easier to use than Google's API. Perhaps all search engines will start allowing this. This has vast impacts.

    HEY DIGITALPOINT! I would like to hear your thoughts on this.
     
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