MSN adds operators for RSS search

MSN is first out among the big search engines to add special operators that lets you search for RSS and Atom feeds.

Use the feed: operator to search for documents that are RSS or atom feeds. For intance, you can type feed:pandia into the MSN search box if you want to find Pandia’s search engine news feed.

There is also a new special operator that lets you search for documents that contain feeds, the hasfeed: operator.

In addition to the two brand new operators for feed searching, the site: operator lets you restrict your search to a particular folder hierarchy in the URL up to two levels deep. So you can type site:www.apple.com/ipod into the MSN search box to search the part of Apple’s site dedicated to the iPod.

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