Google vs Yahoo
Google is clearly the better search engine overall - I've never had a problem with it. That was until I decided to syndicate some of its news feeds. Google has taken it upon themselves to provide their newsfeeds in html format. And its not even good HTML. Each item is packed with tables, and font tags where it would be simpler to just provide these news snippets as plain text. There is more than enough allowance in the RSS 2.0 specifications to allow for images to be placed outside the description, yet they fall down on this part. You'll find images placed besides news articles that are sometimes hardly relevant.
2 comments April 27th, 2006