I wonder what would happen if everybody who wants Google to continue Reader would start clicking on the Ads in Reader on a daily basis.
Oh wait, which ads...
Google Reader shutting down
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2 more for search, Yandex is growing fast and getting really good, and DuckDuckGo of course. I've been using Yandex a lot lately. Their products are getting more available in English, in fact they have webmail with a built-in RSS reader that resembles google reader.
DDG is essentially passthrough to Google/Bing/Blekko, though, so you're still somewhat exposed to the risk of those companies being crazy. Although I guess 3 is enough that DDG should be able to survive even if 1-2 go crazy or die. It's perhaps somewhat nationalist, but Russian companies are slightly above Chinese companies on my list of "would I want my traffic going through their infrastructure", from a privacy/inf…
DDG has their own crawler, but its difficult to take on a giant gorilla like Google in one shot.
I think over time DDG will do just fine.
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Its not as lucrative as you would think. When Google Code Search shut down I launched code search http://searchco.de and while it got some attention it was nowhere near as much as you would expect. That said I do think that going after markets abandoned by the big guys is an excellent way to go. Usually they abandon it because its not a billion dollar business and isn't worth their time. I believe now that you need t…
Code search never made sense I think. You could argue stackoverflow / github were the replacements.
I strongly disagree with this. Much of the world's code is not on GitHub or StackOverflow. This is a much underserved market in my opinion.
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#436This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning. http://www.newsblur.com I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native mobile apps on iOS (iPhone+iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia MeeGo. Native story sharing was l…
NewsBlur is pretty good. I've used it for a while. I also write my own feed reader: Rssminer. It's not as full-fledged as NewsBlur, but is a much lighter alternative. It's support login with google and import google reader's subscription list.
I hope HN finds it useful too. It's also fully open-source too: https://github.com/shenfeng
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#437Wow. That's a lot of angst. I feel it too. Years of saving useful links on reader which was really easy to search.
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#438Wow. That's a lot of angst. I feel it too. Years of saving useful links on reader which was really easy to search.
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#439Wow. That's a lot of angst. I feel it too. Years of saving useful links on reader which was really easy to search.
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Its not as lucrative as you would think. When Google Code Search shut down I launched code search http://searchco.de and while it got some attention it was nowhere near as much as you would expect. That said I do think that going after markets abandoned by the big guys is an excellent way to go. Usually they abandon it because its not a billion dollar business and isn't worth their time. I believe now that you need t…
I never found Google Code Search useful. What I wanted to be able to do was to search for code expressions with Google -- to be able, for instance, to search for the words "C++" or "call-next-method", exactly as I type them, punctuation and casing and all. No synonyms, no "corrections", no singular/plural conversions, no punctuation-stripping. Google never provided a way to search for exactly what I asked it to searc…
Their implementation was lacking, but the concept was sound. Someone could get this right, particularly if it was marketed as a learning tool.