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Re: Google Reader shutting down

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I use reeder for Mac and ipad that is connected to my google reader account. Need to find an alternative now.

Not necessarily; @reederapp tweeted a few hours ago, "Don't worry, Reeder won't die with Google Reader."

He's not very communicative but I suspect this means he's working on something :)

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This 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…

http://skimfeed.com - I don't like to share this out anymore because the server usually dies. But it's awesome.

If you like this layout you might also want to try out https://trackpanel.net

It lets you display RSS feeds (and bookmarks, tasks and notes) in a similar layout.

(Also plugging a side project of mine :-))

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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.

Not a huge thing, but your HTML isn't valid - for example, there's Google analytics stuff after the closing tag. That kind of thing is never going to help http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsearchco.de%2...

I didn't know that had any bearing on it but thinking about it seems like it would be a ranking factor. I'll fix that up soon and see if anything changes. Cheers.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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bastards. they never seem to realize how much they damage our trust with these actions. it effects all of their future products. I don't trust them anymore. anyway feedly has a replacement coming soon: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/ > We have been working on a project called Normandy which is a feedly clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine. When Google Reader shuts down, feedl…

"a feedly clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine"

So it will also die when Google shuts down App Engine? :)

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I use Google Reader a lot so this is a shame|sad|annoying :(

Still this video "Hitler finds out Gooder Reader is shutting down" at least put a broad smile back on my face :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=A25VgNZD...

(via Dave Winer tweet - https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/312049161677713408)

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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? http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

I wrote up a quick reponse to that one (many googlers ask for data when confronted with how their main product is declining) and here it is: techinorg.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-is-going-on-with-search-results.html

Not pretty but have some real examples. Please post your own and paste a link here or in the comments.

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Well.. was going to sign in with my google account, but they seem to want "manage my contacts" permission.

Could be an oversight. I think "manage my contacts" is a default permission requested when not explicitely setting the scope in OAuth...

That they would make such an oversight makes me even more uneasy with giving them access to my data.

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This 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…

Brilliant. I created an account. However, there are two very important features that Google reader has: (1) It lets you add subscriptions to regular websites without an RSS feed. (2) It lets you search for articles that were published before you subscribed to the feed. I think you could add (2) simply by redirecting to Google search using the site:sitename.com argument. (1) may not be that simple to add but it would…

I too am looking for a reader with rss search. This was the main reason I gave up whatever desktop app I was using at the time prior to Google Reader
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