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Thursday, 2005-12-29

Engadget duplicated in Bloglines

Lately Engadget’s feed in Bloglines has had a lot of duplicates. I’m sure this is due to the feed ads they’re using, they seem to screw up the “modified” flag of the entry somehow.

I haven’t noticed anyone else complain, however. Is the problem with Bloglines or with Engadget?

Update 2005-12-30: The problem is that Engadget (or Weblogs, Inc) have started to publish the same entries under different URLs. The problem is not confined to Bloglines, either. Below is a screenshot from SharpReader:

Screenshot of multiple entries

I really hope that someone can fix this, the feed is almost unusable as it is.

Rui sees the same problem.

Updated on Friday, 2005-12-30. Posted at 13:08, in the comm » weblog category. Comments [3]
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Mark Fletcher wrote at 2005-12-29 16:43:

It's a problem with several of the Weblogs, Inc feeds unfortunately. If you look at the URLs in the titles to the duplicate articles, you'll see they're slightly different, because they're under different subdomains. That means we have to treat the articles as unique. I believe it's a bug in their blog posting software.

Gustaf wrote at 2005-12-29 16:57:

Thanks for the quick response. They may have fixed it now, a friend reports no dupes for the last 5 - 6 posts.

Mia wrote at 2005-12-29 16:59:

Yes, I have the same problem with some of the blogs I read.

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