Winer cranks up the self-righteousness

Hee hee... Dave Winer's pissed about Google. It appears that Google has been experimenting with indexing syndicated web feeds, but only RDF/RSS 1.0 and Atom, and not XML/RSS 2.0. Of course, Winer can't stand it when people ignore him and his syndication format:

Google is starting to crawl for two syndication formats, but is not crawling for the third, most popular format, that's supported by most of the other tech companies and major publications.

Andrew, if this is what it appears to be, it's both tying in an anti-trust sense, and PR disaster in the making. I never in a million years thought Google would stoop this low, even Microsoft on its worst day never played this dirty.

Developers, no matter what format they prefer, are going to be outraged that Google, which is a search engine, is trying to control and define publishing. This should be illegal, although of course I am not a lawyer.

Personally, I've started to believe Mark Pilgrim's axiom; namely, if Dave Winer doesn't like something, then I love it.

Dave, why don't you do some investigating before making crazy accusations about Google?