Version 2 of Google’s useful Desktop search tool is released today and, yes, it has RSS capability. The Googlers have taken an early lead it seems in the rush to scrap the terms RSS / Atom / XML, on the public face anyway.
While Dave Winer and Robert Scoble agonize over their loss, Google has named its service, “Web Clips”. Nice and neat, and descriptive too. But is it as precise as Microsoft’s provisional, “Web Feeds”?
For those who care about these things, and they’re getting thinner on the ground, maybe we should start getting used to Web Clips for headlines, and Web Feeds for full-featured RSS. IE7 may have to be upgraded, though, or go down the Google route.