Yahoo! Pipes doesn’t work with my Yahoo!

To be honest, it does not work on iGoogle either, but I blame that on the widget developers rather than on Google themselves. But for Yahoo! Pipes not to work on Yahoo’s own services is quite bad.

I recently read a post on Lifehacker about using Yahoo pipes for more efficient searches on Craigslist. Hoping to put my new found knowledge to use, I decided to help a friend search for a car on Craigslist. All went well with being able to build the pipe and get information out of it. I was very impressed with what Yahoo! Pipes was able to do. In fact I went ahead and put the RSS feed into my reader to test whether I would get timely updates and it worked (hurray!). For the record I use Google Reader and it all worked seamlessly.

After I sent the link though, my friend tried adding it to her my Yahoo! account and then things went wrong. Apparently, my Yahoo! does not support RSS Feeds from Yahoo! Pipes.

Does that seem wrong or is it just me? When different services from the same company don’t play well together, it just sends out a wrong message. My opinion of Yahoo! is currently that they have a bevy of great services, but they are all so cluttered and unreachable that its just not worth it. Google is heading in that direction, but they have managed to keep it somewhat clean so far.