Trevor Cook: Bloglines indexing half a billion RSS posts

11 June 2005

Bloglines indexing half a billion RSS posts

Bloglines indexing half a billion RSS posts "Looking for a sign that RSS is exploding? Bloglines will be announcing today that they're tracking half a billion news posts and blog articles. This has doubled in six months, and is adding between 2 million and 2.7 million syndicated articles a day. At this rate, I'm guessing the index reaches one billion before the first pitch of the World Series."

11 Jun 2005 01:38:57

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