Ebay users can now subscribe to eBay search results using RSS. Ebay's Arturo Zacarias made the announcement.
Members can already use RSS to keep an eye on the Announcement Board, the eBay Discussion Boards, or listings from specific eBay Stores. This week we're adding RSS support to our eBay Search pages. With this enhancement you can create a custom RSS feed that will deliver the results of your eBay Search to you via any RSS reader. Since we are integrating the RSS support with our Advanced Search pages, you'll have complete control over how you narrow down your search.
To subscribe to a RSS feed, you'll need an RSS reader or aggregator to gather and view the updates. Several free and commercial RSS readers are available, and some examples can be seen here (provided by dmoz.org). Once you have an RSS reader, simply go to the bottom of any RSS-enabled page you are interested in, click on the RSS button, copy the URL from the page that opens, and paste it into your reader to display the content in RSS.
RSS continues to penetrate the mainstream market, as companies like eBay educate their users to the value of search syndication. These actions continue to validate the collective cause of what many start ups have been pushing for some time now-Feedster included.
Ebay is using an orange RSS button and not the new RSS icons as you can see near the bottom of the page containing the search results for Spider-man action figures.
