Google Chrome retrieves RSS feeds

Google Chrome retrieves RSS feeds

Keeping up with the latest news from your favorite websites is about to get a lot easier in Google Chrome, as the search giant is testing a new 'Follow' feature in its browser. Built on the open web standard RSS, this feature was designed to simplify the experience of getting the latest and greatest content from your favorite sites right in Chrome. Instead of subscribing to mailing lists or turning on notifications for each site, users can simply hit a Follow button to keep up with the latest releases. Google's tracking functionality differs from Discover (now called "For You" in Chrome) and its thematic approach, as users actively choose which sites they want to see content from. However, in the future, Discover's algorithmic feed will leverage user tracking in Chrome to display content. Google's senior developer attorney, Paul Bakaus, provided additional information about the company's new tracking feature in a recent tweet, saying: "We've heard it loud and clear: discovery and distribution is lacking on the open web, and RSS it has not been easy to use for 'the general public'. Today, we're announcing a new experimental RSS-based way to follow creators with a single click. This is just the beginning of a deeper exploration, and to make it happen, we need your feedback. "

Follow your favorite sites

According to a Chromium blog post, Android users in the United States running Chrome Canary may see the tracking feature appear in their browsers in the coming weeks. Google's goal for this feature is to make it easy for users to follow any website they're interested in, both big publishers and small neighborhood blogs, by pressing a Follow button in Chrome. When a crawled site posts new content, users will see the updates in a new Next section on the New Tab page of the company's browser. To ensure that users see the latest content, Google recommends that all site owners keep their site's RSS feed up to date. However, the company will provide more guidance to web publishers at a later date when they decide whether this feature will come out of an experiment and roll out to all Chrome users. Since the amount of content on the web has grown dramatically in recent years, it makes perfect sense to give users an easy way to keep up with the latest posts from their favorite websites, especially since RSS doesn't. adopted by major consumers. Via 9To5Google