Yahoo Announces Media RSS 1.0 Back in December 2004, Yahoo first announced Media RSS in conjunction with their Video Search. Last week they announced the completion of the Media RSS 1.0 standard. From the specification information: "Media RSS extends enclosures to handle other media types, such as short films or TV, as well as provide additional metadata with the media. Media RSS enables content publishers and bloggers to syndicate multimedia content such as...
Bittorent Planning to Launch Search Engine BitTorrent is planning to launch an advertising-supported search engine allowing users to find live torrent files. The search results will display sponsored links through Ask Jeeves. The most interesting aspect of BitTorrent’s search engine is their ranking system. Current search engines rank results by relevancy, while BitTorrent’s search engine will rank by relevancy and availability. BitTorrent does this by having its crawler interact with all live torrents to determine live nodes...
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