December 15, 2005

RSS Still Not Widely Adopted

On October 12, 2005, Chris Sherman on SearchEngineWatch reported that RSS usage was still not widely adopted. His article summarized and provided commmentary on several studies. Some of the results, included:

• Only 12% of all users know about RSS
• Only 4% knowingly use it to read web content
• 27% of users utilize RSS on personalized start pages without realizing that RSS drives the content

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Posted by Aaron Shaffer
Posted on December 15, 2005 11:51 AM

At first these results might sound discouraging for RSS, but I imagine one could say the same about CSS. While CSS is responsible for much of the formatting on the web (even here on this blog) most people have no idea.

One of the joys of technology is that you do not have to know how it works, or even that it exists, to use it everyday successfully.