<story><title>The Case for RSS</title><url>https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2017/11/the-case-for-rss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mceoin</author><text>Google Trends for RSS is pretty telling: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=rss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=rss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it&amp;#x27;s a big loss that we have moved away from the RSS format specifically, and the open web generally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>b0rsuk</author><text>Oh look, Google Trends for Javascript is pretty telling:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=javascript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=javascri...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Facebook has an aardvark-shaped graph:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=facebook&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Android is on decline:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=android&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=android&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Case for RSS</title><url>https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2017/11/the-case-for-rss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mceoin</author><text>Google Trends for RSS is pretty telling: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=rss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=rss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it&amp;#x27;s a big loss that we have moved away from the RSS format specifically, and the open web generally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lj3</author><text>Google Trends don&amp;#x27;t necessarily equate to usage. I keep hearing rss feeds are dead, yet nearly every site on the internet has an rss feed, save for Twitter and Facebook (for obvious reasons).</text></comment>