If your website has a blog feed, you may have noticed a new “Powered by Yahoo” logo next to it.
Before today, the JavaScript code that powered our blog feeds relied on the Google Feed API, which has been deprecated since the middle of last year. That really got our attention when the API went down for a day last year, and all of the blog feeds across our entire website were suddenly empty until Google restored service. We weren’t the only ones who noticed.
To fill the gap, we investigated several options, and settled on Yahoo’s YQL API. Though the API is free to use, just like Google’s was, we are required to include the “powered by Yahoo” logo alongside our blog feeds as part of the terms of service.
Your blog feeds should continue to work as they have in the past. If you have any issues with your blog feed, please contact the Web Help Desk, and we’ll be happy to help.