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Amidst the clamor for Google or Yahoo! to
launch blog-specific searching, Robin Good
notes
that Microsoft released to new feed-oriented search operators in MSN Search:
- feed: The feed operator returns feeds matching the search query. The results are raw feeds; click on one
and you get .xml code. However, click on the “Cached page” link to see an intelligible feed display as you would in a
newsreader. MSN crawls full feed content.
- hasfeed: this operator returns matched results of Web pages that include a link to a feed. By and large,
the linked feed is the feed for that page or site, not another, so hasfeed: offers a secondary and more
familiar, Web-centric method of finding content.
These new operators are important and groundbreaking. While this feature does not constitute a blog search engine
(all kinds of information sites provide feeds, not just blogs), angling into the MSN Search index via feed searching
brings up revelatory results. Furthermore, this creates a centralized location for blog-specific searching.
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