

- has URLs of valid RSS feeds in its index (due to links that point to those feeds)
- doesn’t recognize the XML file format of RSS feeds (as you can read on the excerpted screenshots above)
- only rarely indexes the feed (I base that not just on the fact that nearly all RSS feeds are shown in Google results with no title or snippet as in the first screenshot above, but also because, out of 64,000 RSS feed files hosted by feeds.feedburner.com, only 19 are shown to contain the word cheese, the last 2 of which show up in the results only because cheese appears in links pointing to the feed; yet the same search on Yahoo! shows over 400. So clearly a lot of files that should have matched are missing from the Google search results.)
- only rarely caches the XML (see example) with most caches being blank (like this)
- associates words in links pointing to the page (as demonstrated with this search)
- doesn’t allow refining of your query with the operators — filetype:rss, filetype:xml, or filetype:rdf

- has URLs of valid RSS feeds in its index
- indexes the feed (Evidenced by above screenshot, which was a match for a search on text contained within the feed.
- caches the XML
- doesn’t display the “Add to My Yahoo!” link for RSS feed listings (this is a disappointing omission, as Yahoo! displays this link on listings for HTML pages that have an associated RSS feed but not for the listing of the RSS feed itself)
- associates words in links pointing to the page
- doesn’t allow refining of your query with the operators — filetype:rss, filetype:xml, or filetype:rdf
- doesn’t have URLs of valid RSS feeds in its index (Evidence of this: not a single feed out of 64,000 feeds at feeds.feedburner.com is displayed, even though there are links that point to those feeds. Note that the couple feeds that are displayed are not valid feeds but error pages outputted in HTML.)
- doesn’t recognize the XML file format of RSS feeds (file type is displayed in the search listing after Cached link when it’s a recognized non-HTML file type)
- doesn’t index the feed
- doesn’t cache the XML
- doesn’t allow refining of your query with the operators — filetype:rss, filetype:xml, or filetype:rdf

- has URLs of valid RSS feeds in its index
- indexes the feed
- (View Cached feature not supported by Teoma)
- associates words in links pointing to the page
- (filetype: operator not supported by Teoma)
Stay tuned.
And btw, it should be:
Ask Jeeves (Teoma)
🙂
Kaushal Kurapati
Ask Jeeves
I wonder how useful returning RSS feeds in the results is to the average joe (not a geek). Not very.
Looks like a month since this post but people have taken your word of advise and all the Yahoo, Google and MSN are up and running with RSS Feeds.
Google is the last one in this race, but looks like they are catching up, and I found a little URL discovery for Google Feed Search today which I just posted on my blog http://www.rss-syndication.info/blog/?p=42
Good job with your blog
Vishal Parikh
http://www.trustpharma.com/index.xml
no rss result found
Jane Perez
The Trustpharma Team
Trustpharma.com
when google index rss feed after submission?