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They need to work on real honest not ad-driven search again.
Search quality is dwindling(I don't need 2 billion amazon and ebay listings on search results, Google!).
Months ago when I used duckduckgo I'd bounce right back to Google. Today I can use DDG without regrets.
Reader was focussed on reading content and did a good job of that. Virtually every pixel on the screen was about reading content. Here is what G+ does with actual reading content highlighted in yellow http://i.imgur.com/ASKMSRv.png
Reader used to be the first tab in my first browser window. This meant I always had a tab open at Google and it was a single click to get into G+. Now I have to consciously choose to go to G+ which happens rarely.
My problem is that G+ is unreadable. Every iteration they make it harder and harder to actually read the content. I completely gave up on their Android app for that reason. Most recently they switched the web site to arbitrary sized blocks in a 2d random layout using images wherever possible instead of truncated text. It is true that newspapers do this, but at least they have more readable content in each block. I ha…
There's an assumption here that doing this would result in a material number of users for Google+. But I'm not sure it would: it's reasonably safe to assume that everyone using Google Reader knows about G+, and is either using it already or has decided to not use it. At best, what's proposed would convert some percentage of that latter group (maybe) over to using G+. It might be a couple million users if everything p…
By integrating both services (specially the old social features from reader) they could make Google + a much more active community, overnight.
Instead, they decided to send their users to other venues. This is just dumb.
There's an assumption here that doing this would result in a material number of users for Google+. But I'm not sure it would: it's reasonably safe to assume that everyone using Google Reader knows about G+, and is either using it already or has decided to not use it. At best, what's proposed would convert some percentage of that latter group (maybe) over to using G+. It might be a couple million users if everything p…
You underestimate engagement. I guess most of these users already has a Google + profile, but are not engaged. By integrating both services (specially the old social features from reader) they could make Google + a much more active community, overnight. Instead, they decided to send their users to other venues. This is just dumb.
