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Pass on Feedplex

FeedPlex is back online. This is a search engine that searches only XML files—such as RSS and RDF feeds—but not very well. I entered my own first name (yep, a vanity search) to see what would come up. The headline listed this blog, “a shel of my former self.” The link, however, went to a completely different blog I’ve never read or heard of. Search Engine Watch reports the database is being “revamped and expanded.” One hopes.

04/22/05 | 3 Comments | Pass on Feedplex

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  • 1.Hi Shel,

    I wanted to thank you for posting about the problem with FeedPlex you described. You are correct, the URL had no title and the web crawler gave it your blog's title, which was crawled right before the URL with no title.

    This is obviously not how a web crawler should work and the issue should be resolved now. I apologize for the error. I hope you haven?t written off FeedPlex completely. It is in beta and some of the bugs are still being worked out.

    Anyway, thanks again for pointing out the problem and let me know if you have any other thoughts on how FeedPlex could be improved.

    -- Nathan Enns

    Nathan Enns | April 2005

  • 2.I appreciate your posting, Nathan -- and even more, I appreciate your keeping tabs on what people are saying. I'll definitely go back to FeedPlex and give it another try. And I should have noted that it's in beta; my error.

    Shel Holtz | April 2005 | West Hills, CA

  • 3.Hi Shel,

    I am glad that you expressed your honest opinion about FeedPlex. It allowed me to quickly find the problem.

    I am also pleased to find that the comments were open. I appreciated the chance to explain the error. Hopefully all the bugs are worked out when I release it out of beta... :-)

    -- Nathan Enns

    Nathan Enns | April 2005

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