Not cool, GOOG. Suppose I'll give NewsBlur a try then.
Google Reader shutting down
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Re: Google Reader shutting down
#492Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Because that is what googles mission is?
To index all the worlds information and make it universually useful?
Oh right, these days it is making shitty copies of facebook.
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#493These web companies prove over and over again that it's not possible to trust them with your data. What would stop Google from killing your gmail or docs when they don't see it as valuable anymore? The worst part is how the big guys kill all competition with their free products leaving few alternatives for users.
I wasn't much of a Google Reader user, but it certainly does feel like this retirement might undermine some of their "trust the cloud" efforts. In the old days products getting killed only meant that no more updates are coming.
You can't just let products sit around and fester. Even if you're not building new features, you have to support browser updates and patch security holes, and the latter in particular means you have to keep around folks familiar with the details of the entire stack. As services age and folks move on to new jobs, that gets increasingly expensive to maintain as you have to train new maintainers.
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#494Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any geek who relies on a domain name that belongs to someone else for their give-out-to-people, permanent email address needs to have his or her membership card revoked. Even if it's a domain that's owned by Google. Get a domain name.
Out of curiosity, what domain name should people choose, one based on their full name? If so, what happens when it has been already taken?
You take something else?
Tomjen isn't my name, but it is close enough.
Re: Google Reader shutting down
#495Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Because that is what googles mission is? To index all the worlds information and make it universually useful? Oh right, these days it is making shitty copies of facebook.
No, Google's mission is to make money. Everything else is optional.
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#496Earlier 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…
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…
Google's Verbatim tool doesn't do the job?
Re: Google Reader shutting down
#497Do you this will have a big impact on sites like daring fireball that have a huge rss subscription base?
Re: Google Reader shutting down
#498One update for all RSS feed fans. If you are in India, US or Casnada, you could SMS enable your feeds by using the RSS feature of http://txtweb.com. check it out!
Re: Google Reader shutting down
#499I'll bet you anything the catalyst behind this is in some way related to G+, the introduction of which has led to a steady removal of features from Reader. This news is really rubbing me the wrong way; I've been a long-time Google customer, even a 'Google hipster' as my friends would say. I'm an early-adopter that often beta tests. I was the only one at work with GMail when it was released, and was always out of invi…
LOL - I hadn't been aware of that blog, so headed over to take a look. Liked it so much I was just about to hit "Add to Reader"...
Bugger.
Mark my words, Blogger is next for some choppie-choppie. Have you noticed how it, too, is steadily being neglected/deprecated in favour of posting to some G+ river of drivel?
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#500I believe the "loyal userbase" would be large enough to sustain a startup. But sadly that is not enough for google anymore.
Sergey Brin is a scurge for old Google fans.... this guy seems to focus on hardware related products more than what Google great.... its Web products