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Yahoo Answers has some new features and they involve RSS feeds. I’m a big fan of RSS and Yahoo since they were the first major search engines to allow you to search specifically for RSS format. They are still my favorite place to go to find new feeds on a given topic. But back to Yahoo Answers; they have added the ability to track just about anything via RSS.

Being interested in chemistry here’s the feed for chemistry related questions. Looking over the open questions, it seems some may be homework questions. I’ve always wondered how much the Internet has changed homework and the whole educational situation, but that’s another topic for another day.

You can easily form your own query without even visiting Yahoo answers just by changing the url. Here’s one I did for Hawaii

feed://answers.yahoo.com/rss/searchq?p=hawaii

You can form your own feed by changing “hawaii” to whatever terms you want.

Another feature is you can track questions by users. You can track and see what questions individuals are asking. I find this interesting and it reminds me that you need to be careful what you post on the Internet.

While I’ve not personally found this to be all that worthwhile it could is another interesting use of RSS.

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