Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

It's been basically my primary portal to the internet since it came out. Other than HN and reddit, which don't really produce super useful feeds, I don't really browse any sites directly anymore. I have always been looking for the next big thing to replace it, since there hasn't been a tremendous amount of effort put into it lately, but nothing has compared.

The feature that I have been sort of daydreaming about is the ability to use your subscriptions to weight your search results so that sites you've subscribed to are ranked higher.

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by brg » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 9:42 PM UTC

Why? Is this market research for a new reader, or is this tool next on the Google chopping block and your looking for demographics.

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by wslh » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 9:43 PM UTC

Yes, one of the main advantages is having all the historical posts there, since RSS is used only for latest posts.

Another feature is automatic translation, I follow a blog from Ukraine there.

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by abeisgreat » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 9:44 PM UTC

I pretty much leave reader open my whole work day and jump over to it whenever I get some down time.

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by parweb » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 9:44 PM UTC

yes

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by tbh » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 9:44 PM UTC

smhinsey wrote: post #4

It's been basically my primary portal to the internet since it came out. Other than HN and reddit, which don't really produce super useful feeds, I don't really browse any sites directly anymore. I have always been looking for the next big thing to replace it, since there hasn't been a tremendous amount of effort put into it lately, but nothing has compared. The feature that I have been sort of daydreaming about is t…

You may prefer a modified reddit feed [1] where the article URL is the main RSS item URL, which makes the RSS feed much more useful.

[1] http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=bnYqwjiA3RGJxTckBR...

Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?

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Post by lftl » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 9:46 PM UTC

I generally use Feedly (http://www.feedly.com/home#my) now, mostly because their Android client is much faster, at least for the way I read. They sync subs, and status with Reader so you can bounce back and forth. Their web client really isn't any better than Google Reader's but it's somewhat habitual now to go there instead of Google Reader.