About FeedRank:  FeedRank is a numeric ranking system for RSS feeds and is generated based on a content analysis algorithm developed exclusively by RSSMicro.

FeedRank measures the quality of RSS feeds including published articles and posts. In order to generate the FeedRank, a customized algorithm checks various areas including but not limited to traffic data and a newly developed concept called Feed Delta.

Feed Delta is a mechanism in which it measures unique information across articles, ensures the quality of the content on the source. In an array of articles, all articles must consistently offer rich content so that the array can get a higher delta value, the value represents the Feed Delta in an RSS feed. The concept is based on the fact that computer generated spam websites or websites with little or no valuable content currently have difficulties in simulating an array of articles with high delta values. While we believe the big challenge for ranking RSS feeds does not stop here the FeedRank has successfully identified many spam websites and websites with little value during many tests before launch.

FeedRank uses other checkpoints relevant to the feed along the Feed Delta value to ensure reliability and accuracy of the results. FeedRank is a work in progress and we like to hear from you, contact us if you have any comments and ideas.

Check your site’s FeedRank HERE:

About the RSSMicro Search Engine: Their Vision

“The new web generation is not application driven or a change in our habits; it seems to be the preferred data formats and new integration methodology that has a profound effect on the web by leveraging applications’ usability and scalability.”

“We did not change the web when we first introduced instant messaging or email clients, it was the HTML code on HTTP protocol which let everyone communicate on the web, and today it is not the emergence of blogging or social networking sites that shape the new web, it is more likely to be the XML feed in our applications which allows real-time data integration and collaboration on a global scale and creates a new generation of web products and services.”

An RSS feed which draws a fine line between the application interface and updated, valuable data on a website is where search engines should increasingly visit to find new content. RSS feed crawling improves bandwidth usage, it guarantees the content availability and reliability since the data published is chronologically ordered and is made to be distributed or publicized. RSS feed eliminates the AJAX impact introduced on newly developed web interfaces, it addresses the privacy and copyright issues and offers many more advantages in today’s dynamic web environment.

RSSMicro expects a significant growth potential for RSS feeds, a new data syndication format currently used for blogs and news. RSS feeds’ rapid growth technology is being widely adopted by small to enterprise level companies. RSS feed and its subsequent technologies have the potential to change the way we search the web.

Along with RSS feeds, RSSMicro is committed to evaluating, exploring and implementing new technologies such as AJAX, multi-core development, innovative database and system design in order to improve search performance, and create more interactive search applications. Similarly, it has created innovative ranking system (PDF - 16 pages) to provide best search results possible and avoiding web spam and blog spam in the search results.

Key Features:

Indexing more news than Google
As of July 2008 more than 5,400 news sources are being indexed and fully searchable. Refreshing the entire news index every few hours

A true hybrid search engine
For the first time offers innovative hybrid search, the ability to search for RSS feeds and search in RSS feeds Diversified RSS feed index. As of July 2008, 3.2 million RSS feeds are indexed and 2.1 million feeds in first tier are fully searchable
RSSMicro offers an extensive RSS feed directory based on DMOZ open directory project.

Comprehensive
Search in news, blogs, press releases, forums, discussion boards, articles, and potentially anything that can be published in RSS/Atom format. More than 65 million blog posts, news articles have been indexed and fully searchable
RSSMicro adds and indexes tens of thousands of new items every hour

Best Ranking System
RSSMicro makes it possible to search articles within various time frames, builds an efficient method in which it balances the rank and freshness of the search results. As of July 2008, RSSMicro has finished crawling more than 193 million high rank pages in order to find and index quality RSS feeds

Deep Search
RSSMicro suggests millions of relevant search keywords, using a technique known as clustering

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