Feedster Finds My Posts Before I Do

Feedster seem to have improved their indexing times recently – they now find every new entry on this blog immediately when I publish it – the Feedster item (for my vanity search on “Adrian Sutton”) actually appears before the actual entry for this blog (I subscribe to my own feed to make sure it’s working correctly).  Good stuff.  I’ve probably managed to set up WordPress to ping something whenever I post (I seem to recall seeing something in that box) and Feedster has linked into that somehow (that or I’m pinging Feedster directly but I don’t think so).

Sadly, Feedster is indexing the whole page instead of just the content of the (full text) RSS feed so it screws up and matches every new post to this blog with my “Adrian Sutton” search just because my name is on the sidebar.  We really need an RSS extension that marks an RSS item as full text so that these stupid search engines don’t have to try and guess what the content is based on what’s on the full page – they always seem to get it wrong and it makes them a big waste of time.

Course, it wouldn’t be a probably if everyone just provided full text RSS feeds…