I received an email message from Estaban Kozak of SearchFox RSS giving the sad news that SearchFox RSS is shutting down on January 25, 2006. I checked the official blog, thinking there had to be something that I missed that was going on. I just saw the same information in the email message. I immediately send an email to Kozak asking for more info but he said he can’t say anything publicly about it yet. There will be a formal announcement shortly.
I am sad to see such a promising service go dark. I had liked SearchFox RSS mainly because it was a hopeful solution to information flow coming with RSS subscriptions. For the curious reader out there, I had written a somewhat detailed review of SearchFox RSS back in September 2005.
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[...] When I heard the announcement, I was preparing to write about my changing feed reading habits. The change was towards “not reading feeds” but following meme trackers and directly going to my favorite blogs. The main reason for this was that the information overload that comes with ever growing number of feeds, and not being able to find a satisfactory online feed reader after Yahoo bought (or mysteriously swallowed) SearchFox. [...]