Summer has ended and that means back to school go the kids, back to the TV go the football games, and back to the playoffs (after 12 years) go the Colorado Rockies! Even if you’re not into baseball, surely you can appreciate a team who had to win 14 of their final 15 games to make the playoffs.

The update I rolled out tonight includes more improvements to the back-end than on the visible side of things. The big added feature is the ability to subscribe to any search with RSS using a blog reader like Google Reader or Bloglines. Just copy the aptly named “Subscribe to this search” link and paste it into your blog reader. Voilà!

I’ve also improved the map slightly in that it scrolls with the page; and, somewhat related, upon re-centering or zooming, the search results are updated much more quickly. Another slight improvement deals with search URLs, which now have a location embedded in them so they indicate clearly where they are searching — before there was a little bit of magic.

Most other changes deal with testing or improving search engine friendliness, which will hopefully drive more traffic here.

Finally, if you’re a techie, you might find it interesting that Dibs is now running on the Rails 2.0 Prerelease, just a couple of days after its announcement. It’s not as risky as it sounds — it’s been running on a July development version for some time already.

There are some other exciting things in store, so stay tuned!