What are RSS feeds?

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  1. Googs

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    Seeing the symbol more and more often on websites, and also noticed my phone accepts them now too. What do they do? Are they something to do with ebay? Seen the symbol on ebay. Do they cost as well?
     
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    Its just a way to be notified of updates.</p>

    You subscribe to the feed, and it appears in your feedreader software when the site has been updated. Its like receiving updates via email.
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    Its usually on blogs or news sites.</p>
     
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    Cheers mate, made things quite a bit clearer now.
     

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