San Francisco, CA - (PromotionWorld) - November 15, 2004 - Feedster, Inc., is a rapidly growing Internet RSS search engine that provides easy access to relevant and up-to-date information for both consumers and web service developers. Today, the Company announced its ability to segment search results by source type. The first example of the resulting specialty search engines is found at blogs.Feedster.com.
"Feedster's harnessing of RSS is changing search and the expectations of Internet searchers," said Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster. We launched blogs.Feedster.com in response to user demand to offer blog search results separated from the news and e-commerce information in our system.
Feedster.com's most popular use to date is the delivery of search results, both as web pages and as RSS feeds that combine professionally published news with individual blogs. By providing tools that enable users to self-select search criteria, Feedster can deliver the most relevant and timely search results that match user preferences. Additional features include FeedFinderTM, the ability to search for RSS URLs, Links for search results that display references and links to one's site, MyFeedsterTM, a personalized feedpaper tool to aggregate updated headlines from chosen sources or subjects and various proprietary feed papers for categories such as politics, sports, news and jobs. Feedster also powers blog search for Eurekster, the only Internet search engine powered by social networking technologies.
About Feedster
Feedster is a rapidly growing search engine for online content and weblogs published using RSS, a newly popular XML standard. Feedster delivers timely and meaningful search results from over 1 million indexed sources including over 50,000 professional feeds from The New York Times, BBC, CNET, IDG, Wired and more. Approximately 5,000 new feeds are added daily. In addition to search, the Company's content management system and data development platform powers content syndication for targeted vertical categories such as jobs, products, politics, special events and media feeds.