A Part of Google Died Today
Today, 1st July 2013, Google Reader will no longer be of service. That's a shame to many of us who use such a miracle platform to get our RSS feeds daily, our precious hard-work on our daily news updates. We feel the pain. Do you?
By shaunzsee — 14 Mar 2013, 11:53 AM — Updated about 11 years ago
Google Reader shudders into the grave
In a few hours, the online behemoth Google – the free service for email with Gmail and cloud-based storage with Google Drive – is burying the mighty RSS aggregator, Google Reader.
isource.comThe announcement has been coming for months, and Google Reader itself has been telling about its impending demise. Nevertheless it’s a sad, sad day.
go.comWith the end of Google Reader, how will you stay synchronized and up to date with your feeds?
isource.comAlternatives to Google Reader
Reeder is also alternative of Google Reader. See the screenshots here.
reederapp.comIf you're considering jumping onboard you're not the only one -- Feedly's servers are pretty crushed right now, so you know, just test the waters out some time in the next few months.
engadget.comRSS app/service Feedly posts on its blog that it has been anticipating the shutdown of Google's service for some time, and invested in building its own backend.
engadget.com150,000 signed petition to save Reader
A petition on Change.org to save Google Reader has nearly 150,000 signatures, but Google has not decide against its fatal decision.
Image via imgur.comA petition to save Reader on Change.org has nearly 150,000 signatures.
change.orgGoogle's axeing of Reader explained
Under CEO Larry Page, Google has made a practice of “spring cleaning” throughout all the seasons so it can narrow its focus. Reader was just a another casualty on the latest closure list.
An unnamed source says that the closure is at least partly because of Google’s reluctance to build out the staff and infrastructure needed to deal with legal and privacy issues related to the product.
theverge.com
Google is also trying to better orient itself so that it stops getting into trouble with repeated missteps around compliance issues, particularly privacy.
Google is trying to position the company so that it stops facing expensive privacy lawsuits by adding dedicated staff to deal with those issues to each of its teams.
theverge.com
Google didn’t have a product manager or full-time engineer responsible for Reader, so the company didn’t want to add in the additional infrastructure and staff, the sources said.
Former Reader product manager Nick Baum says, "if it’s a consumer product at Google that’s not making money, unless it’s going to get to 100 million users it’s not worth doing."
theverge.com
Google starts removing links to reader from its top menus
Today, Google Reader moved one step closer to its grave as Google is now quietly removing links to it from the black menu that graces the top of virtually every core Google product.
techcrunch.com
500,000 new users on Feedly after Google Reader apocalypse
Following Google's decision to kill off the service due to a decline in usage, more than half a million Google Reader users have migrated to Feedly in just 48 hours.
t3.comFeedly says “To keep the service up, we 10x our bandwidth and added new servers” to keep the service up, listen to new users for suggestions and add features weekly.
When Google Reader shuts down, Feedly will seamlessly transition to the Normandy back end. So if you are a Google Reader user and using Feedly, you are covered: the transition will be seamless
“We have been working on a project called Normandy, which is a Feedly clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine"
Google to drop Google Reader
Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the course of the next four months.
blogspot.com
Kini Google membeberkan akan "membunuh" alias menghentikan layanan Google Reader dan beberapa produk lainnya.
Google Reader user? Say goodbye. Google has announced the service is closing on July 1.
That’s a sad day for all of us who still regularly use it, but its demise was probably inevitable. Reader had been lingering in a stasis for months (maybe even years) now
techcrunch.com
Why is Google axing Google Reader?
2 reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience.
Google is cleaning house. On Wednesday the company announced plans to purge Google Reader and a handful of other products and services as part of an effort to focus on its core products.
What the people have to say
"The black smoke rising from Google over this whole Reader death has overtaken everything on Twitter."
12:19 AM - 14 Mar 13
@feliciaday:
I'm very upset about Google Reader disappearing. I use it every morning, every afternoon. RSS should not be shoved aside!!!!
12:34 AM - 14 Mar 13
And that giant "NOOOOOOOO" sound is the Internet's reaction to Google's most unpopular decision in — well, as far back as I can remember.
mashable.com