Lazycoder

Yahoo Podcast Search understands the subscribe button

I finally got around to checking out the new Yahoo Podcast search beta. It’s pretty slick. One thing I liked about it is the “subscribe” feature. When I clicked on it, I expected to be prompted to install the Yahoo Music engine, or at least just have a new section appear on my “My Yahoo” page with links to the podcasts. I was surprised to see that it told me that either the Yahoo Music engine or iTunes would open up and subscribe to the podcast when I clicked “Continue”. I clicked, iTunes opened up, subscribed to the podcast I selected, and started downloading the latest episode. Then I thought, “Wow, they really understand that when I click on ‘Subscribe’ I was to subscribe using whatever podcast player I’ve chosen. Not just their proprietary podcast player.”. Can you imagine that the Microsoft support for podcasts will acknowledge other players? I can’t.

n.b. I haven’t checked to see if the subscribe button works with iPodderX or any of the other podcast clients. Leave a message in the comments here if you have and the result.