diff --git a/htroot/Surftips.html b/htroot/Surftips.html
index e8a3adb97..7c45d4c4a 100644
--- a/htroot/Surftips.html
+++ b/htroot/Surftips.html
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     <title>YaCy '#[clientname]#': Surftips</title>
     <meta name="keywords" content="YaCy P2P peer-to-peer Surftips Social Bookmarking Link Voting" />
     <meta name="description" content="Surftips provided by the YaCy peer-to-peer network using public bookmarks, link votes and crawl start points" />
+    	<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="YaCy Surftips" href="Surftips.rss" />
     #%env/templates/metas.template%#
 	<script type="text/javascript">
   //<![CDATA[
diff --git a/htroot/Surftips.java b/htroot/Surftips.java
index 7c9e1cd1f..ed87a08ee 100644
--- a/htroot/Surftips.java
+++ b/htroot/Surftips.java
@@ -312,10 +312,12 @@ public class Surftips {
             // add/subtract votes and write record
             if (entry != null) {
                 urlhash = plasmaURL.urlHash(url);
-                if (urlhash == null) {
-                    System.out.println("Surftips: bad url '" + url + "' from news record " + record.toString());
-                    continue;
-                }
+                if (urlhash == null)
+                		urlhash=plasmaURL.urlHash("http://"+url);
+                		if(urlhash==null){
+                			System.out.println("Surftips: bad url '" + url + "' from news record " + record.toString());
+                			continue;
+                		}
                 if ((vote = (Integer) negativeHashes.get(urlhash)) != null) {
                     score = Math.max(0, score - vote.intValue()); // do not go below zero
                 }
diff --git a/htroot/Surftips.rss b/htroot/Surftips.rss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9d71abc47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/htroot/Surftips.rss
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='/yacysearch.xsl' version='1.0'?>
+<rss version="2.0"
+	xmlns:yacySurftips="http://www.yacy.net/yacy/surftips"
+	xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
+	<channel>
+	#(surftips)#::
+		<title>YaCy Surftips</title>
+		<description>autogenerated Surftips</description>
+		<image>
+			<url>#[rssYacyImageURL]#</url>
+			<title>YaCy Surftips</title>
+		</image>
+		<opensearch:totalResults>#[results]#</opensearch:totalResults>
+    		<opensearch:startIndex>1</opensearch:startIndex>
+    		<opensearch:itemsPerPage>#[results]#</opensearch:itemsPerPage>
+    		<opensearch:link rel="search" href="opensearchdescription.xml" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"/>
+    		<opensearch:Query role="request" searchTerms="" />
+		#{results}#
+		<item>
+			<title><![CDATA[#[title]#]]></title>
+			<link>#[url]#</link>
+			<description><![CDATA[#[description]#]]></description>
+			<guid>#[urlhash]#</guid>
+		</item>
+		#{/results}#
+        ::
+	#(/surftips)#
+	</channel>
+</rss>
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