RSS Feeds & Newsreaders - Thing 8 & 9

I subscribed to tons of feeds, those suggested and my own. It is amazing how many feeds are out there and how much information you can get. I can see many uses for this especially when customers come in trying to research and keep up with a particular topic. It is so much easier to keep up with the news by having all of it come to one place.

I like the search tool however there are a lot of ads. I think it might confuse the novice user just as ads confuse the newbies in our computer classes. I think these sites and many others we've visited could benefit from a interface makeover. Is it wrong to question if these sites are product and sponsor driven? Do they need "customers" to click on the ads or they go out of business? Do people lose track of what they are doing and start buying products. I wonder?