Goodbye Google Reader
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- lowimpakt0
shit the bed
- section_0140
Wow, stupid.
- instrmntl0
We Make Money Not Art™
- ahli0
wankers
- chrisRG0
wow, reader has more traffic than G+
According to data from the BuzzFeed Network, a set of tracked partner sites that collectively have over 300 million users, Google Reader is still a significant source of traffic for news — and a much larger one than Google+. The above chart, created by BuzzFeed's data team, represents data collected from August 2012 to today. (Yesterday, Google announced that it would close Reader in July.)
- ESKEMA0
Google is great at making stupid choices. Reader is my most used google tool aside from gmail. Why the fuck are they shutting it down? Make it profitable you cunts, it's not like its drowning the company resources.. G+ is failure. Why not kill that?
They'll probably backpedal this one, just like they wanted to drop support for h264.
- mg330
There's going to be some kind of backlash that causes them to rethink this. I've already started using www.pulse.me but I'm going to hold off from adding everything to it.
- Stig0
Are there any alternatives that have a widget that functions like G. Reader? Feedly's widget doesn't work, Taptu requires you to manually scroll the widget, which defeats the purpose of a ticker in my opinion. I'm about to try Flipboard next..
- MrAbominable0
yeah. no words. just confused by the stupidity of killing Reader and not just destroying it with advertising and driving me away.
- instrmntl0
I imagine they have a different product that they hope to use that is more profitable to google. Either that or they feel like they lose money in search revenue.
- shaft0
RSS allows people to skim through headlines and excerpts without seeing ads on websites.
Google's profits come almost exclusively from ads. It's technically their only product, the rest is just bait.
Let's fantasise... If you were a Google strategist back when and saw the emergence of RSS, you'd see what danger it was to Google's business model. You'd call for containing the disease (by creating world's main RSS aggregator) and then phasing it out by continued neglect until you can finish it off.
Which is what they did. They killed RSS because it was bad for business.
As for Google+, it will continue to grow because as Eric Schmidt said, Google will eventually penalize in search results content not verified with an account there.
- mg330
I've been giving Feedly a shot after importing from Google Reader. Was using Pulse before that and just trying to decide which I prefer. Pulse seems to restrict certain RSS feeds or make them hard to find, and I'm not sure why. Feedly seems like there are no issues there. Both seem nice on tablet and phone.