Yahoo! Toolbar Gets to Know RSS
- Posted March 11th, 2005 at 4:39 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: News/Announcements
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.”
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Here are some other power user features that are useful for many folks:
Enjoy!
Duke Fan
Yahoo! Toolbar Product Manager
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What about Atom? Does “…/rss+xml” work for Atom formatted Feeds too? RDF?
RSS Autodiscovery doesn’t work for me in IE.
Yahoo search getting better day by day. waiting for yahoo blogs!
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!
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?
its very useful at the time of browsing
Agree wholeheartedly.
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.
No IE Support ?
This is great! Google’s toolbar is less and less attractive by the day! Keep it up, Yahoo!