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Figure 2. Syndic8 highlights the term you're looking for in your search results.
Pay attention to the dates on the search results page—an older feed that's
still active usually contains good data, as I mentioned earlier. Be aware of
“ghost feeds” that haven't been updated in years. here are a lot of people
out there who enthusiastically start a site, ofer RSS feeds, and realize a
few months down the road that regularly updating a site requires time and
efort. So they give up. You want to be using feeds that are up to date. You
won't oten encounter ghost feeds when searching in Feedster, since Feed-
ster lists search results by date. (he feeds that have updated more recently
appear at the top of Feedster's search results.) With Syndic8, however, you
want to pay more attention.
You can also see the last entries in the RSS feed ( Figure 2.9 ). Scroll down to
the very bottom of the feed information page, and notice there's a list of the
most recent entries and enough of the content to get a good sense of what
the feed is about.