Warning, this is an opinion piece regarding the usefulness of trying to find anything through an RSS search-engine:
Not a fan of Topix. Tough to search for useful categorized information. The syndic8 website was so horrible I didn’t even want to try to search for anything useful. Technorati was a little better, and Realtime search was also awful.
I don’t subscribe to the popular, because I find the popular is misinformed and looking for sensationalism. The problem with the RSS generators is they rank stuff by popularity and not by useful categorized information. Furthermore, how many RSS feeds can any individual get before they are, once again bombarded with so much useless information to weed through in order to get useful stuff, that they just stop paying attention to everything in their feeds.
There has to be a simpler, efficient way to target information that is useful without fighting through mountains of meaningless words. Navigating the web through these sites is like taking a card catalog, dumping all the cards on the floor, mixing them up, and then trying to find the one you want. It’s not useful.
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