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- The feed digesting functionality could have been merged into Google+
-Google Reader could have become a news reader skin on the of G+
As long as Google Reader remained a stand alone service and yet deeply tied into the search index, it has been doomed.
Google should open source it. Seriously. Donate the code base to the open source community, and let someone run with it. With some luck it'd attract enough developers to keep the project alive. Or maybe somebody would figure out a way to monetize the effort. Either option, it'd be much better than just let the service die. It's not unprecedented. Google did exactly this with Google Wave. Sadly, I don't think this wil…
HN deaded this when I tried to submit it: http://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/googles-lost-social-network I don't know why. It's a great eulogy for Reader, written in 2012.
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When he realized that the traffic would be too much, and money would probably pour: https://twitter.com/NewsBlur/status/312025565815255040
It's a move that makes sense sure. But it irks me that a service I've been using for however long just one day decides to cut my quota by 80%. It doesn't exactly spur me to start paying.
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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…
What the fuck. Later edit: Like many other will most likely do in their replies I'm also going to suggest an alternative that I've tried in the past. http://theoldreader.com/ Later edit 2: They even added a nice pop-up now. https://s3.amazonaws.com/i.imm.io/Zg6A.png
Other alternatives I tried are also disappointing. July 1 will be a terrible day for the Internet.
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…
HN deaded this when I tried to submit it: http://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/googles-lost-social-network I don't know why. It's a great eulogy for Reader, written in 2012.
I think buzzfeed gets automatically marked dead.
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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