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Google Reader Being Retired

Posted by samzenpus on from the so-long-farewell-auf-weidersehen-goodbye dept.

Edgewood_Dirk writes "According to the official blog, Google Reader is being retired on July 1st, 2013. The main reasoning seems to be its decline in usage over the last few years. Users and developers will be able to retrieve their RSS data using Google Takeout."

2 of 386 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Alternatives? by LordLimecat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its also famous for making sure you can get your data and get out.
    http://www.dataliberation.org/

    Any company can drop products. Google has consistently managed to not be a jerk about it.

  2. Re:Google+ is sort of what killed it by icebike · · Score: 5, Informative

    And most reader users were happy to see the social Bullshit deleted.
    All we ever wanted was a cross platform reader that would sync and organize your feeds.

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