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If you're unhappy with the changes to Google Reader, we've highlighted some alternative feed aggregators to consider.
Google is ostracizing its most important news consumers by shutting down Google Reader.
Google Reader is often held up as one of the prime examples of Google killing a product that users love and consider to be good. It died on July 1, 2013, and 10 years later, a new report goes in ...
Today Google announced what it is calling “[a] second spring of cleaning,” shuttering another set of old applications that it views as no longer necessary. Included in the list is the ...
Google Reader will be dead as of July 1, and the Internet is not happy. One day after Google announced it's shutting down the popular news reader because "usage has declined," fans shared their ...
Remember Google Wave? What about GOOG-411? Aardvark? These were all pretty hyped in their day and were eventually phased out by the big G. Their loss went largely unnoticed; these were fringe services ...
So Google is closing Google Reader. Perhaps that's no big surprise and the services that depended on the product are now stepping it up with their own solutions.
Google Reader is still defunct, but its spirit lives on in a “follow button” for Chrome that Google first started experimenting with in May. The RSS tracking feature was limited to the ...
Google Reader Play is by no means a replacement for Google Reader. The service is well-designed and it’s easy on the eyes, but power users looking to quickly customize their RSS feeds will want ...
Google Reader is getting a much-needed refresh, along with some new social features. Of all the apps and services in Google's catalogue, Google Reader must be one of the most ignored. The ...
Google Reader now lets users comment on items with their friends, turning it into a forum of its own. The feature is very minor right now, but has big potential to shake things up.
Reader users will retain the option to continue sharing with all of their Google Talk contacts, but they now can also draft a specific list in Reader of hand-picked people to share feeds with.