Google Reader Now Adds Pages Without Feeds and also, Pat Robertson is Stupid

Great news from Google today. Even without feeds, Google Reader users can now add pages by simply adding the URL and letting Google do the rest. Good news for lazy webmasters, bad news for RSS Feed providers. Anyway I immediately tried it out and added the webpage of a comic that was really cranking me up about a week ago. Pat Robertson of the 700 Club.

Of course he doesn’t provide a feed. It’s the work of the devil!

Basically, Google will track changes made on the page and sends it out to your reader as a new item. But as Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Land puts it, adding a robots.txt file or by using the noarchive tag (<meta name=”googlebot” content=”noarchive”>), blocks Googlebot from crawling a page. Nice tip right there.

And now I wait for Pat to update his website for another heaven-hell revelation mumbo-jumbo that he comes up with. From the Haiti’s devil pact to Cory Aquino, he never fails to amaze me with his comments. Here’s 10 Stupidest Things Pat Robertson Ever Said. Enjoy and you may wanna add him to your reader. I mean come on, listen to the guy!

“Cupcakes, The work of the devil!”