Feedster Gets an Upgrade
Posted on February 7, 2006
Feedster has announced the relaunch of its blog and feed search tool. The search engine has been simplified. You can search all of the feeds or specifiy just blogs, news articles or podcasts. RSS subscription to the feed searches is also provided.
Search functionality has been simplified. If you remember the old site, the landing page was somewhat messy, and search was a bit confusing. We cleaned this up. As for search results, weve adopted the new RSS subscribe button and we've got a better iteration of subscribing to the feed of a search result than the previous site. You will see that it is much clearer how to subscribe.It does look cleaner and simpler but there are other changes coming that bloggers will have to continue to wait for. The changes to look forward to include advanced search, MyFeedster, feed claiming and simplified indexing. Of interest to bloggers will be what Feedster does with feed claims and inbound links. Here what Feedster says about these items:
Advanced Search - this is coming soon and will include Link Search and FeedFinder.Feedster will announce these new features on the blog when they are available. The Feedsterites, as they are called at Feedster, also have personal blogs of their own.Simplified Feed Claiming and Icon Uploading - We wanted to make the whole process of working with your feeds and new features as easy as possible. Look for these abilities in the near future. We know that we may have a couple of icons that we didn't transfer over properly, so please let us know and we'll work to resolve it quickly for you.
Simplified Indexing - Another feature we're working on is a better way of ensuring your feed is being properly added and indexed with us.