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I'm not even sure it's about search engines. Blogs got much of their viewership via feeds. However, RSS/Atom feeds lost the mindshare war with social media feed
by lrem 8y ago
I'm not even sure it's about search engines. Blogs got much of their viewership via feeds. However, RSS/Atom feeds lost the mindshare war with social media feeds. And that's not despite tracking, but in big part because of it - the more the feed knows about you, the higher chance it has at showing you something you'll like. Breaking out of this is more of a human nature than even an economical thing.
- yoz-y 8y agoRSS is not really a discovery medium, unless you subscribe to link lists though. Facebook and Twitter do have the advantage that they surface 'interesting' stuff that you previously did not know about, at least in theory. This is why I think that having a search engine that would search only in the 'cool' (read: old-style) web.
- Avamander 8y agoRSS could be a discovery medium if combined with a discovery platform (social media). This is why I think Mastodon's (or any other federated decentralized social network) priority should be allowing aggregating external feeds.