Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Google adds RSS to Google Personalized Homepage

Google now supports the ability to add RSS and Atom feeds to the Google Personalized Homepage, rather than just news and info pre-selected by Google.

Although not as good as the RSS/Atom support on My Yahoo!, Google is on the right track here. I've tried other web-based feed aggregators, and I still go back to My Yahoo because I prefer the very simplified layout of the feeds. Google's implementation is also very cool, and it's even easier to re-order and reposition the feeds than with My Yahoo (just drag and drop). This could be a My Yahoo killer at some point.

One big problem with Google's implementation is that it seems not to accept RSS that is dynamically generated; my blog's feed works fine, but a dynamically generated RSS feed like my del.icio.us feed seems not to work. They'll need to fix that before I switch over to Google for my RSS reading needs.

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