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March 11, 2005

Yahoo! Toolbar Gets to Know RSS

Yahoo! Toolbar for IE (v5.6) now detects RSS/Atom feeds just like its toolbar sibling for Mozilla Firefox.

The toolbar uses RSS Autodiscovery to detect feeds. To make sure feeds on your web site are detected, just add the following to the <head> of your web pages:

<LINK type=”application/rss+xml” rel=”alternate” title=”FEED TITLE” href=”FEEDURL”>

And when we say FEED TITLE we mean the name of your site PLUS the specific area of your site (e.g. Engadget: Gaming). When a user clicks the button it will say something like “Subscribe to Engadet: Gaming.”

Get To Know Your Toolbar
Here are some other power user features that are useful for many folks:

  • Drag and drop any text on the page into the toolbar search box to search the web.
  • Press Alt-S to instantly put the cursor focus into the toolbar search box.
  • Right-click any toolbar button or menu item to open its destination in a new window.
  • Use Search This Site button to get results only for the current web site. See Toolbar Options

    Enjoy!

    Duke Fan
    Yahoo! Toolbar Product Manager

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    Comments

    1. What about Atom? Does “…/rss+xml” work for Atom formatted Feeds too? RDF?

      Posted by: Anonymous | March 11th, 2005 5:08 pm

    2. RSS Autodiscovery doesn’t work for me in IE.

      Posted by: We | March 12th, 2005 6:43 am

    3. Yahoo search getting better day by day. waiting for yahoo blogs!

      Posted by: vaidyanathan | March 13th, 2005 5:12 am

    4. How many search bars do you think people need?

      1. Lots use the address bar to search

      2. The added search bar on Firefox

      3. The added search bar on Yahoo! Toolbar

      Its search overload!

      Posted by: n3td3v | March 13th, 2005 12:55 pm

    5. It’s great to hear that IE users now can have RSS (although I’d prefer if they used Firefox, since I’m a website dev). However, I’m thinking that the RSS support that the Yahoo toolbar for Firefox is exactly the same as Firefox has itself. Am I wrong?

      Posted by: David Naylor | March 15th, 2005 6:10 am

    6. its very useful at the time of browsing

      Posted by: sekar | March 15th, 2005 10:23 am

    7. Agree wholeheartedly.

      Posted by: daniele | March 15th, 2005 12:31 pm

    8. Terrific question about Atom/RDF support. Both Atom and RDF are supported in the toolbar and in My Yahoo! as well.

      For RDF, you can use “application/rss+xml”.

      For atom, you can use “application/atom+xml” in its place.

      Posted by: Scott Gatz | March 15th, 2005 6:12 pm

    9. No IE Support ?

      Posted by: Brian | March 17th, 2005 1:25 pm

    10. This is great! Google’s toolbar is less and less attractive by the day! Keep it up, Yahoo!

      Posted by: Andertoons | March 18th, 2005 9:19 am