Feeds Removed from Google Search
by Kevin on December 19, 2007
Yesterday, the Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that RSS and Atom feeds from Google’s search results were removed.
The two main reasons for removing the feeds included that duplicate results were likely if feeds were included, and users clicking on a feed may miss valuable content (including Google ads) if they do not visit the HTML page.
Podcasts have not been removed from the search results, due to them typically being a standalone document. However, you may still exclude them from the results by using Feedburner’s noindex. To search for feeds, you can still use Google Reader, Google Blogsearch, iGoogle, or simply Google News (for larger blogs).
This was a good decision by Google, as it will result in better search results, but blogs with feeds previously displayed on the first results page may not have had the same opinion.
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