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Google Reader shutting down
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Re: Google Reader shutting down
#462I just saw half my twitter timeline panicking about this. Is there so much people using it? What happened to desktop feed readers? Newsbeuter is serving me well, as usual, for years.
Google Reader is the back-end/syncing platform for many desktop and mobile feed readers, so everyone who uses those apps suffers from this as well. It's especially useful for feeds that update frequently, because if you go offline for a period of time you end up missing out on content, especially if their feed only has the 15 most recent items. Google Reader is constantly downloading and storing those items, even when you're offline, and syncs them with your client when you reconnect. (Plus if you read RSS on both desktop and mobile, it keeps your read items in sync.)
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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.
Well Nuuton will have that feature. Not at the alpha stage, but it will roll out.
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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…
Hmm. I personally have needed to use Google Code Search several times since it shut down, but have never found your site. When I've looked for alternatives by searching Google (say, for "code search"), I've found Koders (now Ohloh code search), but not yours. It seems like you might need to do a bit more SEO.
Yes I certainly do. I have been working on it, but Koders and Ohloh are pretty established so its a long climb. I think the .de domain might be hurting a little bit too. Happy to listen to any actionable items that can address this though.
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Wait.. so they have a service that in your words is so good it is irreplaceable.. and taking it away makes them evil ? That's pretty strong!
Yes, their historical data can't be rebuilt. A little bit like what happened with USENET and Google buying DejaNews. Nobody has that data.
So go and grab the data you care about while it's there?
I'm trying to understand why Google suddenly gets responsibility for archiving the entire internet for incompetent websites.
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#466Which reader can parse the xml file google reader generates without extra work?
Re: Google Reader shutting down
#467I just saw half my twitter timeline panicking about this. Is there so much people using it? What happened to desktop feed readers? Newsbeuter is serving me well, as usual, for years.
Google Reader is the back-end/syncing platform for many desktop and mobile feed readers, so everyone who uses those apps suffers from this as well. It's especially useful for feeds that update frequently, because if you go offline for a period of time you end up missing out on content, especially if their feed only has the 15 most recent items. Google Reader is constantly downloading and storing those items, even whe…
Well, that's a feature of Google Reader I didn't know. Blame, since I never bothered to test it.
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#468Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Hmm. I personally have needed to use Google Code Search several times since it shut down, but have never found your site. When I've looked for alternatives by searching Google (say, for "code search"), I've found Koders (now Ohloh code search), but not yours. It seems like you might need to do a bit more SEO.
Grepcode also turns up frequently in results.
Re: Google Reader shutting down
#469I have been working on one for the last couple of weeks, and will hopefully create it as a fully functional RSS reader:
for more information, visit me on reddit username: 7hundredand77
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#470Wow this one hurts. They took down another Google service I loved, Google Notebook (http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html). I have no idea why I loved it. It was just so easy to make lots of quick text documents without the fluff and it was fast. I used it despite the existence of Evernote and other online documentation services. I still haven't found a suitable replacement though OneNote comes real close.
I don't know what I'm going to do about this. I guess the reality is that social won and RSS is dead. Or at least social is much more monetizable.
I've tried so many other different RSS aggregators but kept coming back to Google Reader. It worked well, had minimal fluff, and was fast.
R.I.P. Google Reader