Feeds let you view Web page content and have it update automatically for you. This is ideal for organizations such as news broadcasters, as it means ‘breaking news’ can be displayed automatically on a Web page. Without this technology, you might have to keep pressing the Refresh button to see when new news is available. A common type of feed is called RSS which is short for “Really Simple Syndication”. Internet Explorer automatically looks for feeds within a Web page and if it finds one the Feed icon will change colour, from grey to orange (and also play a sound to get your attention).
• It is also possible to subscribe to a feed so that content updates are downloaded automatically allowing you to read them later.
• There are many alternative names to describe feeds including RSS, news feeds, XML feeds, Web feeds and syndicated feeds.